Louis Gray

Google have taken most if not all of the classified advertising from the newspapers. Google has $25bn in sales. Most of the newspapers are bust. This is not new money or a new business. This is just money transfer from paper to online. Murdoch is fighting his corner. Show him some respect he's been at it since 1953. Sky Television rescued soccer in the UK. Murdoch did that. I love football. Thank you Rupert. - Thomas Power

Old Focker will die off soon... - CW™

Fact: You can't own facts. A house burns down. 5000 reporters write 5000 articles about it, telling the story 5000 different ways. The fact that the house burned down can't be owned by any of them. But Murdoch would like to believe he can own it, exclusively, and that you are not allowed to know that house burned down unless you pay HIM for that knowledge. How does he plan on stopping... more... - April Russo (app103)

don't misjudge and man cos' he's old http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... otherwise one day your grandchildren may misjudge you too. - Thomas Power

http://paidcontent.org/article... - Thomas Power

Huffington's rebuttal is good including a list of all the News Corp sites that aggregate(steal according to Murdoch)... Rotten Tomatoes, WSJ tech section, Fox News Politics Buzztracker, AllThingsD Voices... - Ed Millard

Murdoch's negotiating in public a better deal for himself with Google and Bing. Can't blame him. - Thomas Power

yes i can, and i do. - Joe Silence is not dead

I wonder what motivates Murdoch. He certainly doesn't need to make any more money. It has to be much deeper than that. Esp. at his age, when most people would have long hung it up by now. - Dawn

Its sport. Most hard nosed successful business people just play the game to win and to beat their competition. - Ed Millard

hear hear Ed and not bad for 78 is he? - Thomas Power

I think he is grooming his kids to take over so he's building a dynasty too. - Ed Millard

His father certainly did and it worked out fantastic for them - Maxamad

Some classy responses here. There is no such thing as journalism anymore. Just look at the U.S. media. - Spencer

Journalism does have a bright future - newspapers however do not. Have those somehow become equivalent? - Brian Sullivan

Real journalism is still occurring it is just becoming more polarized and funded by competing interests. Fox may be the broadcast standard bearer for polarization. - Eric Logan

Revenue up, other things up, Glen? - Louis Gray

As long as it comes with Hypercard, we'll all be happy. - Glen Campbell, B.A.

People haven't started calling it the Jesus tablet yet? I'm shocked. - ronin

I'm more curious about whether the 27" 2560x1440 display will be sold standalone, and what the price point would be, given that the 24" display is currently $900 and the 27" iMac is $1700 (and it comes with a computer). - LogEx

...Apple pricing being what it is, that's probably shockingly "inexpensive" for the affluent and monied set... - .LAG liked that

Hahah. That's great! :D Audrey says hi! - Rochelle

Oh man, I just blue screened from the awesome. - Akiva Moskovitz