September 18, 2007
The wisdom of crowds
The New York Times to stop charging for Times Select.
Posted by Karol at September 18, 2007 12:23 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Times+Select New+York+Times
Commodity content gets commodity pricing, so the price of news goes to zero. Great for the consumer. Unless, of course, our unwillingness to pay for content makes it impossible for the unique, high-quality, low-volume, long-form publishers to make a living, in which case we all lose.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the New York Times, which holds itself up as a bastion of editorial integrity and quality journalism, helped kill both?
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Can we pay the Times to put Bob Herbert and Maureen Dowd back behind the firewall?
Posted by: Jim Lesczynski at September 18, 2007 12:51 PMJim is right.
As long as those NYT idiots were behind the wall, everyone ignored what they said.
Now there will be continuous discussion of their stupid columns.
Posted by: at September 18, 2007 01:09 PMThank goodness.
I was dreading the inevitable Bastille moment where hordes of non-subscribing Frank Rich acolytes would storm 42nd St. howling for blood.
Posted by: Gerard at September 18, 2007 05:17 PM
