Dear New York Times: Please charge me more than $5 for your web site.

Nieman Journalism Lab, a project of the Nieman Foundation of Harvard University ^ | July 10, 2009 | Joshua Benton

[kevinm13]

"We all know that The New York Times and other papers have been thinking hard about finding ways to charge readers for the news on their web sites, and there’s evidence that the decision-making process is moving along. Bloomberg has reported that a survey of print subscribers included this sentence:

The New York Times website, nytimes.com, is considering charging a monthly fee of $5.00 to access its content, including all its articles, blogs and multimedia.

It also asked about a $2.50-a-month “discounted fee” for print subscribers....."

[kevinm13]

Liberals believe that by charging more they will get more revenues like increasing taxes. The problem is that for a model like the NY Slimes, increasing fees will cut subscribers and bring it closer to death. Same goes for tax increases which tend to reduce government revenues.

Check out the comments at the bottom of the article. Some real strong liberal business folks commenting [sarc]. I suggest that the NY Slimes charge $50 a month. That will kill it faster.

[SES1066]

I wonder what they will charge for back copy by Jason Blair? How about its star Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Walter Duranty and his coverage of Stalin’s Famine!? I KNOW I would pay at least a nickle (plugged variety)!

[KarlInOhio]

I will only pay if I get a free multimedia Catherine Zeta Jones album with every Maureen Dowd article.

[Dallas59]

Yes! What better way to end the NYT?

[3niner]

I was going to suggest $100. :-)