We must keep Mo Dowd on the web!
Why else would we post CZJ pictures?
Posted on 09/14/2005 5:16:40 AM PDT by jimbo123
The New York Times, which had been operating an all-free Web site, nytimes.com, will begin charging a fee for access to its major columnists under a new program called Times Select.
Starting Sept. 19, the New York Times will charge $49.95 a year for online users to access 22 columnists including Tom Friedman, David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Bob Herbert, Nicholas Kristof and Frank Rich.
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Cybergossip Matt Drudge is threatening to boot the Times columnists.
"I will yank the Times scribes if I can't find other outlets that are planning to carry them," threatened Drudge. "The Internet is losing its innocence."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Damn! I already boycott them....Now I can't drop them in protest.
Atypical of Libs, raise taxes and think their economy is going to grow.
Why the halfway measure? The Times should up its newsstand price to $5.00 a copy and cutoff its readers entirely.
Let's see - I don't go there. Sonow I'm suppose topay $49 a year to not go there????
Hey this is going to be just like NPR!!! Paying for totally worthless drivel that you wouldn't listen to, if it were free.
As its editorial policies repeatedly demonstrate, the Times does not understand the economic concept of elasticity. Consumers of news have many choices is a highly competitive marketplace. More competently written and analyzed news is readily available elsewhere. This will help spur the conversion from the Old Media to the New: the Information Revolution. At last, the Times journalists are assisting a worthwhile revolution.
Charging people always improves things.
I haven't been to Drudge in months since my pop up blocker sounds like a popcorn popper when I go there and virtually everyhting he posts is recycled news from network sources.
*chuckle*
The NYT's is probably a lot like a night club that is barely bringing in customers. To improve the number of patrons, the nightclub owner decides to charge a cover.
The owner did not use the money to hire a hot DJ, or a band...
Forget paying the Times anything....they get their points across with the MSM spewing their talking points.
Drudge overestimates his importance..sigh. It hasn't hurt FR one bit :)
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Got to make up for the loss in revenue from circulation of the print version somehow. It looks like the ol' gray mare is going to put itself out of its own misery.
None of these yahoos are worth two cents, much less $49.95. I pay an online subscription to the WSJ and it's worth every penny. The NYT? They can rot....
Use Firefox with popup/adblock enabled. I NEVER see junk on Drudge's site.
Thanks but I'll just avoid his site. I'm happy with my existing popup blocker and no other site bombards you like his.
I received this email from the NY Times yesterday:
We want you to know about some exciting changes that will
soon take place on NYTimes.com.
My reply: Paying good money for your offering is not my idea of "exciting changes." I could not in anyway bring myself to support you financially. Your product is worth exactly what I have been paying for it: nothing.
That's not a very good business model. What they should do is use pop-ups to force people to see these columns, and charge $49.95 to eliminate the crap. Cheap at ten times the price!
We must keep Mo Dowd on the web!
Why else would we post CZJ pictures?
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