[abb]

Regardless of what happens over the next few months, The Times is destined for significant and traumatic change. At some point soon—sooner than most of us think—the print edition, and with it The Times as we know it, will no longer exist.

[shove_it]

The Times will be nationalized to function as the PR Dept. under the The 0ne’s Regime. It is a National Treasure and Too Big To Fail.

[muawiyah]

The first MSM dailies to move onto the internet were LA Times and Washington Post. Both papers paid well over $100,000,000 to set up their websites ~ and did so long before anyone had any practice with figuring out what kind of "format" you had to have on the net to attract users.

Having made that major (as yet unproductive) investment their legal beagles had a hissy fit the first time Free Republic and other websites began referencing them (so we could disuss, disect and criticize their news articles).

So the LA Times and the Post SUED.

Since then they've had a devil of a time getting anybody reputable with serious internet experience to run their on-line show for them.

They never will either, but they set the pattern for dealing with internet competition ~ sue first even before there's a market for your stuff, which is why I stay away from both websites. You can't trust those pukes. Eventually they will sue their readers, just the same as when they sued their only expositors. We gave them coverage they couldn't get on their own and they rejected it.

When they close down WarshPost headquarters I might buy a desk or something ~ as long as I can get Ben Bradley to sign it!