{"id":606135,"date":"2009-11-20T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/20\/study-if-youre-gonna-make-us-pay-for-a-blokes-writing-it-blo\/"},"modified":"2009-11-20T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T14:30:00","slug":"study-if-youre-gonna-make-us-pay-for-a-blokes-writing-it-bloody-well-better-be-clarkson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/606135","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: If you’re gonna make us pay for a bloke’s writing, it bloody well better be Clarkson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ll admit up front that this news item is minimally car-related, but bear with us. In response to News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch’s repeated threats to bury all of his content behind a pay-for-it-wall<\/a>, the UK’s Guardian conducted a poll asking readers which online columnists they’d pay for. The not so shocking result: Jeremy Clarkson<\/a>, number one. Number two is Charlie Brooker, who we’ve heard of. The next eight? Not so much. But here’s the point.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Clarkson writes about cars. The other day, we were arguing with a burned out (and nameless) colleague about our mutual chosen profession. Eventually he blurted out, “You’re still working under the delusion that writing a good car review is somehow noble.” Not that Clarkson is particularly noble, but the notion that the writer most people (well, British<\/em> people…) want to read spends his days scribing about powersliding the tires off half-a-million dollar cars is quite heartening. Almost ennobling, really.<\/p>\n

[Source: The Guardian<\/a> | Image: AFP\/Getty]<\/p>\n

STUDY: If you’re gonna make us pay for a bloke’s writing, it bloody well better be Clarkson<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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