Tablets and paid subs are newspapers' future, says Murdoch; otherwise, they're doomed

About every week, the aging media tycoon Rupert Murdoch makes another pronouncement about the newspaper business. This time, in an interview on his own Fox network (reported in TechCrunch), he proclaimed that electronic tablets will be the salvation of newspapers and, without them, newspapers are doomed.

He was speaking about a plan to use Kindle (or similar) tablets and charging readers $15 to