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RUSH: I see today the Boston Globe is being run just like public transit. The Boston Globe supposedly lost $85 million, and they are going to raise the price of the paper to a dollar-and-a-half. Did I see that right? Now, this indicates and proves to me that the people running this paper, which is the New York Times, do not understand the market. Why are they having trouble? Advertising revenues are down. Why are advertising revenues down in the newspaper industry? Fewer people are reading newspapers. <\/p>\n

The newspaper industry is telling itself that its biggest problem is the Internet, and they do have a point in the sense that so much news — and I\u2019ve got a concept for you to consider — so much news is on the Internet for nothing, and a lot of it\u2019s unedited. And a lot of it you don\u2019t have to put up with Drive-By bias or prejudice or what have you. You can get it when you want to. You don\u2019t have to wait for the thing to be delivered in the morning if it\u2019s on time. And a lot of the newspapers, of course, put their own editions on the web, and they started out doing this free, and they establish the concept that the news is free. And I want you to think about this. The Associated Press, they are very upset, there are a lot of websites that are stealing their content. The way websites make money is hits. Websites try to design their pages so that they\u2019ll get as many hits, and they tell their advertisers, ‘This is how many hits we got,\u2019 and they charge advertising rates per hit. And in some cases, one of the ways of engendering hits is to strike a deal with Google, to put your website near the top of any Google search. It\u2019s a very intricate and complicated thing to pull off, but it can be done. <\/p>\n

In fact, there was a TIME Magazine story, New York Times, too, recently really just raking the Huffington Post over the coals \u2019cause apparently the Huffington Post is actually stealing content, not headlines. You know, headlines are considered fair use. But they\u2019re actually stealing content and putting a byline of their own website employee on news copy that\u2019s actually written by reporters at other newspapers and not crediting the newspapers. So the AP and the newspapers say, ‘Wait, this has gotta stop.\u2019 Now, that I understand, that I totally understand. Fair usage is fair usage. The pilfering produced product is quite another. But the overall concept, what is news? And how in the world do you charge for it? I mean go look out your window. A car goes by. It doesn\u2019t hit anybody. You\u2019ve just seen news. Did it cost you anything? To me the concept is that there can be no charge for news. The news is just what is. The news is the comings and goings of people, good people, bad people, pirates, evil people, whatever, it\u2019s the comings and goings of people. It\u2019s the actions of people. The whole notion that there somehow is a pecking order for who gets to define what it is and on that basis gets to charge for it, that\u2019s the business model. <\/p>\n

So you get the New York Times, and according to them every day, this is the news and you\u2019re willing to pay whatever you pay to get their version of the news, and the same thing with any other news outlet. But if there were no newspaper, would you have to pay to see the news? You might have to travel to all these different places to see the news, but the news is happening. The news is not created. The news is the result of human beings living and breathing and moving around, making decisions. So the whole concept of charging for it — now, I understand if you\u2019ve got a newspaper and they\u2019ve got reporters and they\u2019re assigned to stories, they go out and put in a lot of time writing the story, they put it on the newspaper website, and some website comes along and steals it as their own, that\u2019s a different thing. That\u2019s a different thing. <\/p>\n

But the whole concept of fair usage in news — maybe I\u2019m not accurately describing this as I see it, but I think it\u2019s a very difficult thing to charge for. We get into the whole discussion, okay, yeah, there was news, there\u2019s news right now, there\u2019s news yesterday, there\u2019s news that\u2019s going to happen in five minutes. But to some people it\u2019s only news \u2019til it\u2019s in a certain newspaper or on a certain network. But we all know that that\u2019s BS. News is news. It happens. If you witness a crime when you\u2019re at the mall, how much did it cost you? It happened. You were there. You saw it. You saw news. Didn\u2019t cost you anything to be there, unless you were spending money for some other reason, like to go to the mall to buy whatever people buy at malls, nail polish, cologne, a Segway. (laughing) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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