Public backs News Corp/Microsoft deal
Posted by Nestor Bailly on November 27, 2009 at 1:50 PM
In a public poll conducted by One News Page, 89% of respondents said that the proposed News Corp partnership with Microsoft's Bing search engine for exclusive news access was a good idea, or 'a winner' in the words of the poll.Only 11% relied negatively, probably because they were the ones who connected the potential deal with paywalls and a News Corp withdrawal from Google.
utalkmarketing.com hailed the poll results as "a pretty good result for a guy that has been called an "old fool," an "aging idiot," and as exhibiting, "early signs of dementia" in the press this week."
This is a rather interesting poll, as it signals a potential discongruity between public response to paywalls, which has been overwhelming negative, and those who connect the dots between paywall plans and business moves, like the News Corp-Microsoft deal.
Source: utalkmarketing.com
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorsweblog.org%2Fmultimedia%2F2009%2F11%2Fpublic_backs_news_corpmicrosoft_deal.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4304" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/11/murdoch1f5lx-thumb-200x266-4303.jpg"><img alt="Thumbnail image for murdoch1f5lx.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/11/murdoch1f5lx-thumb-200x266-4303-thumb-200x266-4304.jpg" width="200" height="266" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form>In a public poll conducted by <b><a href="http://www.onenewspage.com/">One News Page</a></b>, 89% of respondents said that the <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/11/google_vs_bing_will_publishers_actually.php">proposed News Corp partnership with Microsoft's Bing</a> search engine for exclusive news access was a good idea, or 'a winner' in the words of the poll.<div><br /></div><div>Only 11% relied negatively, probably because they were the ones who connected the potential deal with paywalls and a <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/11/murdoch_vows_to_remove_newscorps_website.php">News Corp withdrawal from Google</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.utalkmarketing.com/pages/Article.aspx?ArticleID=16201&Title=Public%20thinks%20News%20Corp/Microsoft%20deal%20is%20a%20good%20idea">utalkmarketing.com</a> hailed the poll results as "a pretty good result for a guy that has been called an "old fool," an "aging idiot," and as exhibiting, "early signs of dementia" in the press this week."</div><div><br /></div><div>This is a rather interesting poll, as it signals a potential discongruity between <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/11/running_some_numbers_another_paid_conten.php">public response to paywalls, which has been overwhelming negative</a>, and those who connect the dots between paywall plans and business moves, like the News Corp-Microsoft deal.</div><div><br /></div><div>Source: <a href="http://www.utalkmarketing.com/pages/Article.aspx?ArticleID=16201&Title=Public%20thinks%20News%20Corp/Microsoft%20deal%20is%20a%20good%20idea">utalkmarketing.com</a></div>&title=Public backs <b>News Corp</b>/<b>Microsoft</b> deal){kind=link}
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