As has been rumored for some weeks (and advocated since the day after the damn thing was started) the New York Times has announced the decease of the detested paywall, formerly known as TimeSelect.
Why? Exactly the reason, she said smugly, I've been saying all along:
subscription fees cannot outweigh the potential ad revenue from increased traffic on a free site.
The fact that this decease comes to liberate the one part of the Times that really has been "liberal"--Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, occasionally Maureen Dowd when she isn't just flipping her hair and being impressed with herself--just at the moment when it's clear the tornado has dropped a house on the Wicked Witch of Washington, aka the Bush administration, I am sure is sheer coincidence.
In the chorus of Nelson Muntzian "HA-haw!" glee with a chaser of "toldjaso" and a side of selfrighteousness, let it be noted that besides the columnists they have also freed up a historic treasure trove of some merit--the NYT archives going back to before the Civil War.
Yum. Schadenfreude. It's what's for dinner.
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thank god - i'll save some trees now by reading frank rich onlin
the only reason i bought the paper version on sundays was to read frank rich's column. now i can read it online and avoid killing trees.
Judy Miller's greatest hits
Easy to do the compilation now, with the archives open.
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