1)
Do you agree with James Murdoch that the BBC
should not be allowed to provide free news online?
I believe that the BBC should not be providing free news to
the public as it is unfair on others institutions. The public already pay the BBC licence fee which covers
the costs of the news with all the reporters and journalists. However, other
institutions cannot do that as they are not public service institutions, they
are businesses and are there to make money. I think the BBC should decrease the
price in the licence fee so that they can charge people online for those who do
want to subscribe and get news daily. The delivery of the news for people who
go on to the BBC website is for free currently; however other institutions are
not happy about this. The BBC must give audiences more choice, for them to choose
whether they would like for the BBC to take out money from the Licence fee to
pay for the news that they provide. Not everyone that pays the licence fee uses
the BBC website for news. So this would mean that they would be getting more money
than they should get. Which is why I think that they should decrease the amount
of the licence fee and set up pay walls for those who would like to pay and
view news online.
2)
Was Rupert Murdoch right to put his news content
(The Times, The Sun) behind a pay wall?
Rupert Murdoch I believe was right to put up pay walls. This
is because now those newspapers are in decrease due to new and digital media enhancing
and becoming bigger than ever with billions of users online and on smart
devices, people look forward and use the new technology available to read
articles. We know this due to the vast increase of people becoming on line
users. By 2015 it is said to be that there will be 3 billion people that will
become online users. Some of which will be viewing news. So why not set up pay
walls if people are moving from newspapers to tablets/smartphones if they were
already paying for newspapers. This ensures that they still keep their income
up so that they are able to pay professional journalists to look for and write up
news for people who value it. However, due to not every institution not
following on from his footsteps people have been getting used to getting their
news free from other institutions. This would mean that they would not be interested
in paying for news when they could go to another site to get it free. These institutions
get their money from advertising. Which is why, I believe that most institutions
if not all should go up on pay walls, if not some then all.
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