...and that the rest of its news content had a conservative bias that probably didn't play well with the iPad demographic.
Not shedding any tears over it
Now if I could just disable the Newsstand app :/. I can't even put it into a folder to "hide" it.
The "balanced" aspect comes from the FCC's since-repealed "fairness doctrine" that required TV broadcasters to present both sides of a political discussion. They had to at least pretend to show both sides or they could lose their license. MSNBC uses "Lean Forward" now. CNN still pretends they are objective. Fox actually owns the "Fair and Balanced" trademark but don't really emphasize it.
Some version of the "fairness doctrine" exists in the UK as far as TV broadcasts are concerned. That said, in the UK newspapers are blatantly more biased than American papers, and far more open about their editorial bent.
The Daily's issue was likely that sites like TMZ do a better job of covering what used to be tabloid material, and that the rest of its news content had a conservative bias that probably didn't play well with the iPad demographic.
Because once the last paid reporter loses his job, the spigot of "free" news will have pretty much dried up.
Social media coverage of major news events is, at best, spotty. It's generally a mess, and it lacks both substance and perspective.
Why pay for news that you can get for free somewhere else.
I don't know in America, but outside of it, the name Murdoch is toxic, and nobody looking for real news would even consider anything with that name attached to it. In Britain, the only Murdoch paper with some respectability, is The Times, and that's because Murdoch keeps reminding us of how "independent" its editorship is... Personally I wouldn't touch that either.
Really? How do you know that most iPhone/iPad users are democrats?news flash Rupert:
most iphone / ipad users are democrats. We tend to not gravitate towards FOX.
The Daily's issue was likely that sites like TMZ do a better job of covering what used to be tabloid material, and that the rest of its news content had a conservative bias that probably didn't play well with the iPad demographic.
Really? How do you know that most iPhone/iPad users are democrats?
I have an iPhone and iPad and I'm a libertarian (no, not a Ron Paul fan).