bateman_ap - 1:02 pm on Aug 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Well years ago they all laughed at him when he moved all operations to Wapping, that didn't turn out too badly.

With regard to news OK we in London can pick up The London Paper, Metro and London Lite but the standard of journalism in those is dire. It is obvious that quality journalism needs to be paid for, and Murdoch is in my opinion right on the money that they should turn to a paid model. If he gets this right, all the other major press should quickly turn to this model.

The Guardian has what is considered one of the best news sites in the UK but there are very strong rumours that they are going to have to close the Observer (their sister sunday paper). They simply have to make more money, it's all very well having a well visited site but the revenue from both ad rev and partnership rev shares isn't working out. If I recall correctly the majority of their money comes from Autotrader and they sold a big chunk of that a while back.

It does require mass takeup off this though to work, and the BBC needs looking at as I don't feel they should be allowed to carry on offering the website they currently do funded by the UK license fee, it really affects UK competition from a lot of angles, not just news.