- Rupert Murdoch: Just say no. (Photo: World Economic Forum)
Whoops. Has Rupert Murdoch been caught out deftly practicing what he has so rabidly been preaching against? While he has ranted about the “parasites” that are Google and other news aggregators that he accuses of “stealing” his content, it appears that his own sites have been quite happily indexing and aggregating content from third parties.
In a thoroughly fun, revealing and totally mischievous post by Techdirt it seems many of his own titles, including the flagship Wall Street Journal and sites owned by the ever-reactionary Fox News, are offering content aggregation services to their readers. Oops.
I’m not blaming the staff at these titles and websites for practicing what is, after all, perfectly acceptable and expected in the inter-connected modern Internet world, but Murdoch really should check his own house is in order before preaching hardship.
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, Mr Murdoch.
