NYTimes.com to Offer Subscription Service. They’re putting MORE stuff behind a pay wall, not less. Discouraging, and I think penny wise but pound foolish. And I guess this voids Times’ pretensions as an organ devoted (partially) to serving the public interest.
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Zeke says
Howdy!
Yeah, but look at what they’re adding:
David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Tom Friedman, Bob Herbert, Nicholas Kristof, Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, John Tierney, Dave Anderson, Peter Applebome, Harvey Araton, Dan Barry, Clyde Haberman, Gretchen Morgenson, Joe Nocera, Floyd Norris, Joyce Purnick, William Rhoden, Selena Roberts, George Vescey, Roger Cohen, and John Vinocur.
Nobody that I can’t live without. Then somethings called TimesPast, Exclusive Multi-Media, TimesFile, Ahead of The Times and TimesNewstracker. Again nothing that I would be worried about.
Pretty much politcal, business and sports columnists, and doo-hickeys that I don’t need.
Stick with http://annotatedtimes.blogrunner.com/ and everything should be fine.
Zeke says
Howdy!
And then, to follow up, this is how Daniel Okrent (the public editor) characterized three NYTimes columnists in his final column:
“Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults. Maureen Dowd was still writing that Alberto R. Gonzales “called the Geneva Conventions ‘quaint’ ” nearly two months after a correction in the news pages noted that Gonzales had specifically applied the term to Geneva provisions about commissary privileges, athletic uniforms and scientific instruments. Before his retirement in January, William Safire vexed me with his chronic assertion of clear links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, based on evidence only he seemed to possess.
No one deserves the personal vituperation that regularly comes Dowd’s way, and some of Krugman’s enemies are every bit as ideological (and consequently unfair) as he is. But that doesn’t mean that their boss, publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., shouldn’t hold his columnists to higher standards.
I didn’t give Krugman, Dowd or Safire the chance to respond before writing the last two paragraphs. I decided to impersonate an opinion columnist.