Comments for Jonathan Green

Comment on McCarthy on the road for The Road by HB

HB — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:18:47 +0000

Dear Frog: thanks and good luck.

Comment on McCarthy on the road for The Road by Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:35:00 +0000

Thanks for the kind thoughts. Not OT at all! Well a bit. But fair enough.

Comment on McCarthy on the road for The Road by paddy

paddy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:38:37 +0000

You’re right Jonathan. It’s a cracking good interview and I’m now (sort of) looking forward to the movie.
Hard to imagine it will reach the heights of the book. But even if it’s only half as good, that’ll be better than most of the dross coming out of the film factories.

BTW. Totally OT, but good luck with the ABC online gig.
We’ll miss you at Crikey, but it will be exciting to see what changes you can bring to Aunty.

Comment on Aussie, aussie, aussie … fire, fire, fire by coollove

coollove — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:02:02 +0000

Excellent site, keep up the good work. I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,
A definite great read……..
flights to perth–flights to perth

Comment on www.rupertmurdoch.twit by Keith is not my real name

Keith is not my real name — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:51:30 +0000

And you should contribute more Heir Frog

Comment on www.rupertmurdoch.twit by Keith is not my real name

Keith is not my real name — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:50:03 +0000

+5 years and I doubt Mr Murdock will be around(literally). Focus on the son

Comment on www.rupertmurdoch.twit by Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:40:19 +0000

Jonathan: It’s going to get worse, a point his shareholders might care to think about. At his age his brain isn’t going to get any better and his mum just hit a hundred the other month!

Comment on www.rupertmurdoch.twit by Keith is not my real name

Keith is not my real name — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:07:05 +0000

Its been awhile Mr Green… just saying

Comment on www.rupertmurdoch.twit by Malcolm Street

Malcolm Street — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:00:55 +0000

He comes across in the article as a grumpy old man off with the fairies. It’s sad, really, the last great battle of many of his career and he just doesn’t recognise he can’t win it the way he won the old battles, the world has changed beyond his control. Cue Don Quixote (or Citizen Kane?).

I thought the most interesting part was:

“Murdoch’s son-in-law Matthew Freud—married to Elisabeth Murdoch, and one of the most well-known P.R. men in the U.K.—explained to me what he believes is the essence of Murdoch’s approach to business: Murdoch is not a modern marketer. He runs his business not on the basis of giving the consumer what he wants but through more old-fashioned methods of structural market domination. His world, and training ground, is the world of the newspaper war—a zero-sum game, where you wrestle market share from the other guy. Curiously, his newspaper battles have most often involved cutting prices rather than, as he now proposes to do on the Internet, raising them. (Murdoch has contributed as much as anyone, with his low-priced papers, to the expectation that news is a de-valued commodity.)

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In the Murdoch view, media only really works as a good business if it achieves significant control of the market—through pricing, through exclusive sports arrangements, through controlling distribution (he has spent 20 years trying to monopolize satellite distribution around the world).”

Now he thinks he can control the Internet… King Canute?

Comment on www.rupertmurdoch.twit by RICK68

RICK68 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:58:22 +0000

AS for Insiders, it should be re-named Onesiders, Bolt and Akerman, singing from the same hymn book——-Fox News aka to Rupert Murdoch’s requirements.