Across the pond

After many months of cogitating Rupert Murdoch has made up his mind. While every other British newspaper boss is wetting their pants about what to do about the millions of pounds they are losing by going on printing their newspapers, Rupert has decided. He is not going to to permit readers to read  The Times for free.

They are now going to have to pay  £1 if they want to read what is in today’s Times. Or £2 a month if they want to have read The Times for a year.

And make no mistake about it. This decision has been made by Rupert, not his son James who is supposedly the boss of the Murdoch media interests. But by his Dad, who is a geriactric aged 79 enyoying daily the caresses of his third wife. Despite the fact that he is a born again Christian who is supposed to believe in marriage on the ’til death does us part’ synario.

So although I believe that Murdoch’s decision on paywalls is right, I do not agree with his other decision. To use  the influence of his media empire  to try and persuade the British electorate to vote in a bunch of Old Etonians to run the country.

This is not what the Rupert Murdoch I first met in 1968 would have wanted.