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From the get go?

Rudowski wonders if The Daily will suffer a similar fate.

The surly Murdoch surely understands the news business, even as he struggles to “get” the Internet, the Web, and a new generation of tablets. But like a new restaurant owner, he also understands he has to sell a certain number of meals to make this work, and even he has to wonder how he's going to get the economy of scale to make that happen.

Unfortunately for Murdoch and News Corp., The Daily is doomed from the get-go because it’s a 20th-century model in a 21st-century package -- and what the old newspaper man in Murdoch can’t see is that nobody wants that anymore.

- News Corp’s The Daily is doomed, by Ron Miller, InternetRevolution.com, February 3, 2011.

2. from the word go:

The former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion accused ministers of adopting a “shoot first, aim later” policy towards cutting the arts, singling out Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Arts minister Ed Vaizey.

“Jeremy Hunt... from the word go has seemed more determined to get into George Osborne’s good books as a macho money saver and quango-burner than to serve his sector well,” he said in the annual Romanes lecture at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre.

“Ed Vaizey... does seem to have a genuine love of the arts but no ideas about how to defend them in difficult times.” He added that he could not recall “a single remark has ever been uttered about the arts and humanities by our Prime Minister and his deputy”.