Fear & Loathing in Las Internet
C'mon Rupert! Better yet, C'mon Mark Cuban
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/murdochs-google-gambit/
Mark you should know better than sign on to this type of thinking but I guess the challenges with HD Network would lead down this road. You don't fight progressive technology with regressive thinking. Billionaires who want to use their power to turn back time instead of using their gimungous resources to innovate and find revenue streams where they don't exist. No that would be too much for the richest men in the world to maybe hire the smartest men in new media to guide them and use technology to create revenues.
It's insulting to me that the guys who have the most advantages not want to compete with the guy writing a blog out of his basement. Rupert Murdoch is a hero for expanding his empire and being a shrewd mogul. But now that I am older I am leaning towards guys like Steve Jobs. Guys who innovate when the rest of the suckers are whining and want to take their ball and go home. What they are essentially proposing here is the worse form of player-hating I have ever seen.
Guys like Rupert are bullies who don't know how to compete on a level playing field with the unwashed masses making all these blogs and social networks. It's like how the people who complain the most about affirmative action are the guys who were C students in high school and still got into Harvard as a legacy.
You can compete Rupert. I believe in you. Throw money at guys like me and I would feel privileged to lead your linear media mindset into a new media modus operandi.