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thornhappy -> RE: Murdoch jacks up White House's annual WSJ bill by $600,000... (7/28/2010 7:07:56 PM)
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Of course, Murdoch's got a competing clipping news service:
"For the past decade, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have paid a small Virginia-based media company $100,000 or more each year to prepare customized packages of excerpts from print, TV, radio and blog outlets. Bulletin News of Reston performs the labor-intensive searches, which would otherwise require the hiring of government staff, every night starting at 9 p.m., delivering a package of article extracts and Web links to the West Wing by 5 a.m. each morning.
The Journal, which sits behind a licensed pay wall, has always been part of the package — until now.
Earlier this month, a Bulletin News executive informed the White House of the fee increase, which appears to have been motivated by Murdoch’s business model, not his conservative politics.
The too-big-to-pay rate increases have also been passed along to Bulletin News’s other administration clients, not only the White House, according to a person briefed on the dust-up.
Dow Jones, the News Corp. subsidiary that publishes the Journal, runs its own aggregation service, Factiva. A spokeswoman told POLITICO the White House could get itself a substantially better deal if they cut out the middleman — Bulletin News — and negotiated directly with Dow Jones’s sales team.
"The prices that have been provided are being quoted by a third-party news aggregator, not the Wall Street Journal,” Dow Jones spokeswoman Ashley Huston said. “They do not reflect the true cost to the end-user. We're happy to speak with any party directly to discuss accurate pricing for a subscription."
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