NYT Ditches Fees For TimesSelect

Slate Magazine:

Pinch Sulzberger's attempt to put his prized columnists behind a subscription wall on the theory that they were so much better than free bloggers that people would pay for them--is finally so doomed it's actually dead, dead, dead, as of midnight tomorrow. ... You see, it's really a success story! It "met expectations." It's just that online ad growth was so much higher it was more profitable to not charge readers and thereby get more of them! I mean, who could have foreseen that (except everyone else in the industry)?... P.S.: Always trust content from kausfiles. Also, I told you so. [You're running out of enemies--ed Burkle, Bangle--what are they, chopped liver? Anyway, Sulzberger hasn't lost his job, yet.]

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Comments

[GimmeFive]

About time. Now if only they would hand out walking papers to David Brooks and Thomas Friedman. I'll hold my breath.

[Celldumceen]

When I heard that The New York Times was putting it's famed columnists behind that Times Select firewall, my first thought was exactly the same as when I heard about New Coke in 1985 and heard that CBS hired Katie Couric to do the Evening News last year! THIS IS A REALLY BAD IDEA! LOL!

[Ammobob]

Now, if we can get Anheiser Busch to wave the fees on Bud Select, we'll have something there.

[Libsrule]

I like the Times, I think most people just hate it for the reason that it either didn't expose Bush for the lying sack of shit he was/is or hate it for "treason".

It has good news stories and I still think they are a hundred time more reliable in their reporting overall than any of the MSM by miles.

I subscribe. I know the difference between bullshit and truth, doesn't mean the other 95 percent of the stories are not well reported.

Get over it already.

[TJTelecaster]

It's about time that was so stupid and when I stopped reading them for the most part..

Why should you pay to read editorials­..?

What a fucking moron JR. is and a sell out that kept Bush in office when he could have revealed the wiretap scandal and saved America..

Little cock sucker and I see him riding his motorcycle around here..

Little prick...!

[easyrider1969]

Why read the Times when you can just as easily get it from bush.

[olivia]

The New York Judy Miller Times doesn't have enough credibility left to expect people to pay for anything.

I have missed the columns, but stopped reading the Times after the Judy Miller mess, and I vowed they would never get another penny of my money. That's been an easy vow to keep.

[wayoutleft]

it is great news though that it is now more profitable to max number of readers exposed to ads as opposed to nick readers a few bucks to read. that is a great development,
but then it's also possble that they wanted to limit exposure to the wrongness of thomas friedman as it unfolded during the colonization of iraq.

[JohnKemp]

Damn.

People not paying money to read Maureen Dowdy.

Who would have ever imagined that?

[olivia]

I like Maureen Dowd, and as long as I have to pay money to Judy Miller's Times to read her, I cannot read her, because I will not do it.

[Magog]

Now they can pay me to read this crap.

[DrBlizzardo]

Man, this'd be GREAT news if I still read anything in the TIMES--but their SELECT online charges effectively made me seek my news elsewhere--and I'm happier at the Huffington Post than I was at NYT, so they've just cut off their noses to spite their faces--too bad--now Maureen Dowd won't be able to afford her next facelift..­.spinster for life.

[kroses98]

You can still get "Select" articles in "Truthout" and "BuzzFlash­."

[TerryFL]

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Fees for Judy Miller's columns will remain unchanged: 100,000 dead Iraqis and 3,750 dead US troops.

.

[MasterfullyInept]

Too bad they didn't have Judith Miller behind a wall when it counted.Th­ose people surrendered the "Paper of Record " a long time ago.

[jacklambert]

I stopped looking after time select was introduced. I missed Maureen Dowd and her humor

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

I stopped reading *anything* the NYT had to say months ago. their hawkish agenda is so transparent. it should be called the New Hawk Times.

[avergejoe]

And the fabricatin­g....