He's a complete phony across the board so at least he's consistent. The latest false outrage story is exactly what I was thinking when I heard Fox and other content providers griping about Google and others "stealing" their content. Oh please. It's a numbers game online and those horrible, horrible "robbers" happen to be driving numbers in their direction. Despite the cries from Murdoch, his company is proactively driving traffic to Google News. Busted. TechDirt.com has the full details on the code added by Fox and Newsweek has the story.
Now comes the next beat: the folks over at Mike Masnick's must-read blog Techdirt.com picked up on my piece, and a smart reader in the comments section advanced the story. He went to Murdoch's FoxNews.com and took a look at the site's robots.txt file, to see just how far Murdoch goes in his attempts to stop Google from raiding his cupboards.
