Yeah! More Maureen Dowd threads. In honor of that I offer this:
Posted on 09/17/2007 6:04:59 PM PDT by balls
The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night, reflecting a growing view in the industry that subscription fees cannot outweigh the potential ad revenue from increased traffic on a free site.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
ha ha
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!! YOU SUCK NYT!!!!!!
As if that’s going to make any difference.
Why is WSJ making their content free online? Their information is geared toward the business folks and thus is valuable.
Correction - WSJ has noted they probably will so the NYT feels a need to leap frog the WSJ preemptively. It was the WSJ that pushed the NYT into this position.
What is good about this is that all conservative bloggers can have free access to the NYT's liberal daily broadsheet and exposing them for who they are.
LOL, well it’s not like the NYTs is franticly looking for a way to stay afloat or anything...
I stay away from leftist sites. Let the libs ping them to death.
Duh?
WHAT! Folks didn’t want to pay to read their editorials and op-ed, whoda thunk it.
The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night, reflecting a growing view in the industry that subscription fees cannot outweigh the potential ad revenue from increased traffic on a free site.From what I understand, the ad rates at the New York Times have taken a dramatic plunge quite recently...
Actually, I think the best arrangement would be to see “ad-free” subscriptions where, for a small fee, you can get the content without all the blinking, blooping distractions.
If it were a site I visited daily, I might actually spring for that.
Of course, you can get software that scrubs the ads out of many websites but it then looks ugly with red x’s and “site not found” things all over the page.
After being called "not rational" and more, by Paul Gigot and his editorial board for wanting to secure our borders and enforce immigration laws in time of war, I have about as much need to read the WSJ as I do the NYT.
Possible ping of interest!
Thanks Milhous, sorry I missed your post.
Glad it’s a few hours to bedtime after viewing that picture, lolol!
Yeah! More Maureen Dowd threads. In honor of that I offer this:
The web is full of valuable and free information. Rupert must figure the traffic boost from making the content free will pull in more ad revenue than he loses in subscription revenue.
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