Would post the full article instead of excerpt. I will not read nor comply with giving my personal informaiton to a scumbag like the new york times.
Here! Here! Absoposilutely!
The NY Slimes uses the information that they gather at their login to boost their readership and thus their advertising rates. Newspapers make NO money (none - nada - zilch) off of their subscriptions. Their income is based solely on advertising, which is a product of subscriptions and street sales. Every time that you login to their web site, it boosts their readership and thus, their advertising rates.
Those who feel that they just must login to the NY Slimes or other liberal media sites, should at least, mark their household income as "under $20,000" and their job as "other". Advertisers know that they can't sell nearly as much to those at or below the poverty line, as they can to someone who makes a good living.
Also, most large media corporations that collect your email address and tell you that they will not sell your email address to any outside company, usually don't tell you that they have numerous subsidiaries (often including an ad agency or two) that they freely share that data with. Although I can't say if the NY Slimes does this, it is a very common practice in all areas of the news and entertainment media. You give them your email address, in confidence and a few weeks later, you start getting a whole bunch of spam. But, backtrack the spammer and check his ownership and you will often find that it's the parent company of the media source that you gave your email address to. They have complied with their very carefully worded privacy policy. Sly b^$t^rd$.
BTW, speaking of spam, I recently installed and can wholeheartedly recommend iHateSpam, by Sunbelt Software. While looking for the name of the company a moment ago, I ran across an interesting counter in the software. It seems that since I installed it (set to the default "medium" detection level), only 9 or 10 spams (my count) have made it into my mailbox, while iHateSpam caught and quarantined 1597 spams (from the counter - make that 1599, since it just reported two more), without a single valid email being quarantined. I used to scan the quarantine folder once a week for possible valid email, but having never found one, I no longer do even that. Furthermore, I set it to bounce the spam that it catches and I am just now noticing a significant reduction in the amount of reported spams that it reports. I really don't like the idea of letting the spammers know that I have iHateSpam installed, by bouncing spam, since by doing so, I am allowing them so spend their money and bandwidth on more productive addresses. But on the other hand, if enough people would do that, it would cut down on the overall Internet bandwidth usage and eventually make spamming unprofitable. I forget what I paid for it. But, it was cheap.
At any rate, like you, I have never logged in to the NY Slimes or any other blatantly liberal newspaper web site and I never will. I don't want to be responsible for them making even one extra penny.