Remember how Rupert Murdoch’s iPad newspaper The Daily was going to change journalism? Bloomberg says not so much:
News Corp. (NWSA)’s the Daily is averaging about 120,000 readers a week, or less than a quarter the number the company said it needs to make money, according to an advertising executive working with the iPad-only publication.
And Gawker says it’s even worse than that:
A source familiar with News Corp.’s numbers said that, on a day to day basis, The Daily typically engages just 10,000 paying subscribers.
I am all for media people engaging with technology in a forward-thinking way. I am all for media people getting paid jobs. But I am also for seeing Rupert Murdoch eat shit in a spectacular fashion. So I think this is what you call bittersweet news.
I believe someone figured out somewhere that this represents barely 1% of Murdock’s revenue, and he more than makes up for it in other areas.
I believe people figure out all kinds of facts that are completely irrelevant to this post, every single day.
Where the fuck did you guys find this Paul Constant clown? Has he ever reported anything without yelling in bold type and wishing the subject dead? I would guess him 15, if I wasn’t already aware that he TOTALLY got high and laid while working at Borders during college.
Eh, they have some really great writers over there. And Rupert Murdoch did already eat shit in a spectacular fashion when he shut down the Daily Mail in the wake of that scandal, derp.