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WastingtonDC:
Failed business model! That said, and gotten out of the way, we move on, to repeating the mantra that I fervently hope will convince Sir Rupert Murdoch to destroy the failed business model of physical publishing, as he is destroying the failed business model of network television, at least in the soul destroying bundled butchery form in which it is practiced, in America.
Google, PayPal, and Sir Rupert must now agree to formulate and execute my Lomax two cent solution, to the multibillion dollar problem that is destroying the Lame Stream Media in particular, and the physical publishing industry, in general. Consumers of content must be enabled to pay their two cents for each article they choose to read, directly to the producer of their chosen content, with none of the collected millions of pennies paid to read the perfection of Charles Krauthammer’s 800 word article diverted to paying for union employees destroying trees, or hauling them to mill, press, newsstand, home and then our landfills. The same goes for the world’s books also made available in Google’s Global Free Library, at no cost whatever, for all the children who will never see more than a few printed books, and presented for pay, on a trust but verify honor system, for those folks who have the where withal necessary to click on the author’s payment line, after the standard teaser allowance, or where ever the best authors choose to put their pay me now, click to read on, line. Billions of readers of a dozen or a few online media outlets daily, are ready to put a PayPal Googler’s $500.00 deposit up, the day their geeks get the “how to do it securely” bits worked out.
Sir Rupert must strike, again, to make another bold step change to an industry, as with Fox and the WSJ, albeit it means the immediate destruction of billions of dollars of his family owned monopoly infrastructure. Since that union driven waste of resources was devised, back in the day, for controlling writers, artists, and their fans, or herding cats, if you will, and is doomed to extinction in any event, being the first adapter is sure to save and make Sir Rupert’s family more money, in the long run.
We want to pay our writers directly, with the free market shaping the systems that deliver us content, and we will not abide any approach that limits the anarchy apparent in Sir Rupert Murdoch’s Market Watch commentary approach. That is: with 5000 characters allowed per comment, with it all archived to embarrass either writers or their detractors, non-censored, and only mildly refereed. Basically it is bare knuckle combat, politely stated, and encouraged as commentary.
Fair and balanced, open commentary began, and has been refined, in Market Watch. It has been increasingly emulated, albeit poorly executed in some outlets. I have repeatedly called for this free for all approach, in NYT, and throughout the industry, by media outlets hoping for any sort of survival, in any form. We welcome the glimmer of a chance, however slight, to see our comments appear in the NYT, WP, and other outlets that have eliminated any hint of sapient conservative writings, photos, or video, for the first half of my life. On the other hand, we will continue to revel in submitting our often rejected NYT, WP and CBS commentary, including this comment of course, to MW, and other Rupert outlets, where they are published, instantly, as “delayed for moderation continues, at the usual suspects less welcoming websites.
Then, we wait with bated breath, to see if our musings elicit the “User xxxxxxxxx21xx is banned”, response with which CBS celebrates each of my test submissions. Regardless of the moderator’s reasoning, we celebrate the simple joy of seeing moderation equal censorship, in any of the usual suspects among the Lame Stream Media, since censorship, or hidebound bias, will absolutely be the engine of their declines and/or demise, depending on how wisely they choose their approach to moderation/censorship.