“political extremists” ?????
Hey ! These two Scumbags need to WAKE UP !
'WE' the people are the REAL employers HERE !
'WE' ARE the GOVERNMENT that you all have tried to turn into slaves....NO MORE !
'WE' ARE taking back our seats at the table and you and your CRIMINAL friends and partners are OUT and some will be seen at their TRIALS and PRISON cells !
The days of the paper tigers are FINISHED and going up in FLAMES ! (Puns intended)
Poor old Johnny Hartigan begin again
Via the Inquisitr and Andrew Bolt's blog comes the transcript of local News Corp boos John Hartigan's Canutian address to the endless waves of the blogosphere crashing over his sandcastle business.
As Duncan points out in the Inq piece, it's now a tired old cliche for journalists to attack the blogosphere for being unprofessional, as if that's the cause of the problem, when the actual issue is the gutting of advertising revenues from the classified rivers of gold. I almost fell asleep writing that, it's such a hoary chestnut of an argument. So old that journos fall into it like a pair of old slippers.
Hartigan is running the new Murdoch line of browbeating the public into paying for journalism, which goes against centuries of tradition.
I believe people will pay for content if it is:
- Original...
- Exclusive...
- Has the authority
- and is relevant to our audiences
Let's look at these four criteria, especially in the context of successful paywall-funded local online enterprises such as Crikey and the various share trading newsletters. Originality is a given ..."
http://tinfinger.blogspot.com/2009/07/poor-old-johnny-hartigan-begin-again.html
Striderus