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Rupert Murdoch in China, arguing for paid content, and greater freedom for the press. 'The challenge of fusing past and present is real for media companies, and for China. Our aim must be to enhance the lives of our customers and citizens, and yet we find ourselves in the midst of an information revolution that is both exciting and unsettling. It is a digital revolution turning traditional business models upside down … traversing geographic, industrial, and media boundaries … and creating a new source of wealth, material and social, around the world.'

Rupert Murdoch states that serch engines such as Google News need to pay the content fee for news providers at the World Media Summit in Beijing

Google CEO Eric Schmidt points out that it is unlikely to pay for the content as there are many free sources available on the Internet at a press conference in Sydney.