Dear Sir,
Business strategies that are hinged on turning a free, non-subscription based service into a subscribed, paid service - ideas generally purported by silent generation dinosaurs; persons with "few standards, few ideals, and an education increasingly specialized [and] without cultural breadth" [Silent Generation, Time, 1951.] are doomed to a quiet, predictable failure.
Rupert Murdoch is a decaying, fossilised caricature of the anti-capitalists who once controlled every piece of industry and infrastructure; men who believed markets must be monopolised to create effective revenue. Surely this persistence of leadership is indicative of the state of our capitalist economy? How else could a toothless wolf survive unless it begins to regulate and exploit those beneath them? And surely the subordinates are just as guilty; where is the Darwinian beauty of the capitalistic ideals when it is most needed? How can a free market be extolled as so virtuous by the same persons who would commit the ultimate perversion of allowing the most inefficient strategies to survive?
In short, dear Rupert, the horse has long since bolted and you are proceeding to flog a putrid corpse. Attempting to SELL INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET (especially that with a half-life of 30 minutes or less) is akin to teaching a dead horse with five legs how to square dance: IT'S A BAD FUCKING IDEA. You are attempting to monopolise the unmonopoliseable (sic); the internet was proposed as method of protecting information exchange from a nuclear attack - It can be pretty much guaranteed that it can protect us FROM YOU!
Forever Yours,
Wild Oscar
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