“The Office” Weighs In on Murdoch’s Paywall Plans
by Peter Kafka
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 5:19 AM PT
Are the folks who put together “The Office” clairvoyant or what? These things are written and shot many weeks in advance, yet last night’s episode contains a perfectly timed reference to the News Corp./Google (GOOG) paywall controversy.
Or at least that’s the way I read it. My guess is that Jim is using the “leaky wall” strategy to access the rest of the Journal piece rather than using a paid subscription. But the writers seem to have made that deliberately oblique. Or perhaps they think their audience has zero interest in the minutiae of media economics.
And for the record: In addition to Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, News Corp. (NWS) owns this Web site.
