Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, says many have come to view online news as "an all-you-can-eat buffet for which you pay a cable company the only charge."

罗伯特汤马斯，《华尔街日报》的主编，说道，有些人将网络新闻评价为“一种只需向有限电视公司交费，就能享受无限的自助餐式新闻”。

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The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson said Mr Cable's argument was not new but No 10 seemed to have been caught by surprise by the timing of the article, which comes less than two weeks before the Budget and after the economy shrank in the last few months of 2012.

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"I think everyone is hoping cable Internet will take off, " says Chin Wong, editor of ComputerWorld Philippines, a trade publication.

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