More than 20 years after he battled print labour unions at his Wapping newspaper plant, Rupert Murdoch hailed electronic reading devices as the death knell of unions.Electronic media may kill paper and printing unions, but Rupert Murdoch is killing journalism.
Devices such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony's Reader may take 20 years to displace newsprint, the News Corp chairman said at Goldman Sachs’ annual media conference, “but I do certainly see the day when more people will be buying their newspapers on portable reading panels than on crushed trees.”
“Then we’re going to have no paper, no printing plants, no unions,” Mr Murdoch said. “It’s going to be great.” FT
Now a message from Murdoch's Fox News--Everything Obama does is bad. It must be nice though, to let your biases run free. Have they no shame, no ethics? Watch how this reporter sets up Orrin Hatch with: "Here's what I don't understand..." Hatch ought to be embarrassed to get such nerfs. Fox reporters don't even try to be objective.
