Rupert Murdoch, the rich guy from Omaha, plans to offer free online access to the Wall Street Journal. This on the heels of the NYTimes decision to do the same thing. Hard to believe such “profit above all” businessmen are willing to give the rest of us such a gift. Perhaps altruism is setting in with age.
Wait! The media moguls may not be nice after all. Ad revenue from the sale of hardcopy papers continues to drop. It may still be about the money.
