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Shift of newsreading and columns to the left?

Rupert Murdoch plans charge for all news websites by next summer Media The Guardian: "Rupert Murdoch plans charge for all news websites by next summer. Times and Sun readers to pay as loss-making Murdoch declares end to free-for-all".

There has been talk for a while that Murdoch will start charging and this will apparently happen around next summer. I currently only pay for The Economist but follow all newspapers of note on the web that are free as an experiment on what kind of image of the world I get from this endeavor. I have so far been working on the project since April 2008 and will continue about one more year to start with.

Financial Times is probably the best paper around but they restrict access and are a little to economical/business for my taste. By-the-way the own a 50% stake in The Economist.

It will be interesting to see which papers solve their economy as to the retainment of free-for-all. Will there be a political fight over readers?

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