- 1.) I completely disagree with James' opinion that news should not be free from the BBC. People from a developed country such as the UK should have every right to be informed about their country's interventions, associations, political affairs, etc, as they're respectively citizens of it. As a result in my opinion James Murdoch is essentially 'stealing' peoples' rights, turning and taking advantage of the news industry into more of a business than a moral landscape where people SHOULD have the option to consume news at a human valued level regardless of whether they've paid or not.
- 3.) For the sake of journalism and the financial and economic side of the industry, paywalls will obviously help to sustain the industry as a whole, however as stated before it could possibly separate a lot of people as some would be put off by the fact that there's a price to pay in order to consume news, and don't see the point when there's several other news companies that aren't restricted with a paywall. However yet again, paywalls are sometimes necessary to an extent to keep an ongoing circulation, as stated, and needs to keep this mutuality.
- 4.) "It is so ridiculous if these mainstream newspapers believe that they can "force readership of fee-based news. One can get the same "news" for free almost anywhere on the internet. I'd take a hint from the alternative free weeklies that survive just off their local advertising. I don't think anyone would read them otherwise. These papers are full of paid advertising. The fee model will never work" - Jerry Harris, and as stated earlier, the Internet is subject to having free news, therefore there is virtually no point in paying unless the consumer would want it to be presented with a definitive source and a professionalism taste.
- 6.) Perhaps the reason for the Evening Standard's increased revenue as the article suggests, is that due to the fact that because there's a decline in the print news audience, the digital audience is now left and free as a result to be targeted by the news company, and they've taken this opportunity to charge news.
- 7.) I do think there is some extent of hope in print media, as I'd like to think they're more appreciated by those foreign to the digital age, whether it's due to age, where they live, financial reasons, living in a area not within the range of internet access, a 3rd world country, etc. Essentially, the news industry is not a dying media in the sense that people just don't prefer it, its instead just that the digital age is evolving at a very fast rate, making things more convenient and free - and who would like to pay for something when you can access it free on the Internet. This is the main attack, that news institutions such as BBC for example are giving out free news and may as a result be an argument and a plausible reason for making a paywall, that loyal consumers may still pay as their news source is definitive, reliable, and from a professional standard.
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