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TIMES UP FOR FREE COLUMNS ON PAPER'S WEB SITE (NY Times Charging $49.95/year, Drudge to yank links)
NY Post ^ | 9/14/05 | KEITH J. KELLY

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jaysonblair; liberals; maureendowd; michaelzetajones; nycrimes; nyt; website
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To: over3Owithabrain

Have you ever heard of a pop up blocker?


41 posted on 09/14/2005 6:21:47 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: jimbo123

Just whom do they think is going to pay to read them?


42 posted on 09/14/2005 6:22:36 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: AppyPappy
You mean people would PAY to read that crap online????

My first thought exactly; and it goes for all MSM. They are becoming irrelevant, and will soon be replaced by blogs and bulletin boards.
43 posted on 09/14/2005 6:24:15 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: jimbo123
I am constantly amazed at the amount of people who make business decisions, but have little grasp of the concept of supply and demand.

Assume you are a consulting service (not a must have, but a nice to have). Business has been flat and/or declining for 5 years. You have a decision to make: Should I raise prices, keep prices the same, or lower them? Does rational thought ever enter the picture? Does the fact that customers have been defecting or reducing their spend make a difference? Should it?

My guess would be that is most NY Times employees were asked, they would say the hypothetical compnay should keep prices flat, or even reduce them so as to keep or even increase customers.

But, when it comes to them, they think people are begging to pay higher prices for the same thing.

44 posted on 09/14/2005 6:31:34 AM PDT by Sam's Army
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To: jimbo123

45 posted on 09/14/2005 6:34:42 AM PDT by frithguild (If I made one mistake, it was that I was too cooperative and waited too long to go on the offensive.)
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To: jimbo123
Just sent them a mocking e-mail about all the errors in Krugman's regular columns.

Web page for e-mail addresses
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/infoservdirectory.html#ases:

46 posted on 09/14/2005 6:34:51 AM PDT by CT
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To: em2vn

Yes I have, wiseguy - and it usually works just fine. The Drudge site puts it into overdrive. He throws everything at you on his site to gum up your computer. So his complaints about the "innocence" of the internet is laughable. Plus his site is rehashed Chicken Little crap, with some fey Hollywood gossip thrown in. No thanks.


47 posted on 09/14/2005 6:37:44 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: jimbo123
Gee that ought to generate..... a couple of hundred dollars of income to the NY Times.... heck maybe even a couple of thousand...bwhahahahahahaha

you know what's so great about this...??????

conservatives don't need to "sensor" or "destroy" the NY Times... once they charge to read it...by-bye... I can see all the college students paying for it (uh-huh).. I can see all the Birkenstock slobs in Seattle paying for it on-line (sure) and all the liberal voters from say.... New Orleans, Detroit, Washington DC and similar ghettos paying for an on-line subscription.... this is hilarious.

In 5 years the New York times will turn into the "Green Sheet"... all personals, local real estate and pets advertising... and all the "great journalist" will call for government funding to guarantee.."freedom of the press" in order to meet their bloated payroll.... I LOVE IT!!!!! roflmao.

48 posted on 09/14/2005 6:39:11 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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To: Dick Vomer

I think if the NYT gets any more expensive and delivers less, we will need to provide government subsidies - you know like health care - it has gotten so expensive we need to have the government pay for it.


49 posted on 09/14/2005 6:43:56 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: jimbo123
Bob Herbert,

And New Orleans once had a quarterback named Bobby Hebert. (Just saw that Seinfeld rerun last night)

50 posted on 09/14/2005 6:45:22 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: jimbo123
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.

I wouldn't read those idiots if the Times paid ME $49.95 a year to do such. Why would I fork over good money to read bad opinions?

51 posted on 09/14/2005 6:47:12 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: jimbo123

The Liberal response..........Add Taxes.......Just Raise Prices.........At Least They Are Being Consistant..........May they Rest In Peace.


52 posted on 09/14/2005 6:49:38 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: stocksthatgoup
I think that this is an attempt (perhaps subconsciously?) by the Times to stem criticism.

Almost all criticism of their editorial content and reporting comes from the Blogosphere.

If only those pesky Internet bloggers would stop pointing out every tiny mistake that Krugman and Dowd make, it would save the Times a lot of trouble AND things will go back to the good old days when the NYT was the undisputed arbiter of the truth

(See my tagline)

53 posted on 09/14/2005 7:36:23 AM PDT by lOKKI (You can ignore reality until it bites you in the ass.)
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To: lOKKI
If only those pesky Internet bloggers would stop pointing out every tiny mistake that Krugman and Dowd make

They can say what ever they want; if we can't hear them, or cite them, it just not relevant. They may as well take their thoughts and bury them in a time capsule.
54 posted on 09/14/2005 7:44:41 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: AppyPappy

You mean people would PAY to read that crap online????


I won't read that cr@p online for free. That's why I deleted that bookmark some time ago. They're crazy. There is so much for free online, why would I want to pay for it? They're shooting themselves in the foot.


55 posted on 09/14/2005 9:21:55 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: jimbo123

Duracell? I think you meant "Diehard".


56 posted on 09/14/2005 9:24:01 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: over3Owithabrain

About a year ago I took him off my homepage; almost never go back.


57 posted on 09/14/2005 9:26:09 AM PDT by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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To: over3Owithabrain

I use Stopzillla as a pop up blocker and don't get a single pop up on Drudge. Stopzilla is set to silent so that there isn't any notice when a pop up is shut out.


58 posted on 09/14/2005 11:16:16 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: coconutt2000

It's like getting a tax increase. We just get the same failed liberalism at a higher cost.


59 posted on 09/14/2005 1:49:52 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: jimbo123; lOKKI; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; ...
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

Dang! You can't make this stuff up!

I'm kind of agreeing with lOKKI's analysis that the Old Gray Slut may be trying to shut down criticism of their addled, drooling columnists.

Their long-standing policy towards not invoking the phony "copyright infringement" restraints on free speech has been exemplary, especially in light of the actions of the Posties and the LATties in cravenly doing the bidding of their masters (and mistress) in the Clinton White House.

I think that their attitude towards the pay articles will change drastically (at least for sites that aren't of the "correct" political persuasion...)

60 posted on 09/14/2005 7:48:29 PM PDT by an amused spectator (If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
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