Last night at the garden club meeting, one of the regulars was going on about Maureen Dowd and how much she enjoyed reading her column on-line at the NY Times. I had to dis-illusion her that her enjoyment was about to come to an end unless she wants to pay $50 to join Times Select. The news sections will still be free but after this weekend we will all have to pay for access to the OpEd features, including the regular columnists.
Personally I am going to miss Paul Krugman. I can get by without the others even though I enjoy them. I can probably find writers at other newspapers to replace them in my daily reading. I don’t think I am going to pay the 50 bucks. Maybe I can find somebody who will email me the Krugman column.
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A lot of on-line newspapers are going that way, because they are losing money from lack of sales of their news. I hope they dont quit printing them though, what else could I line my cat-box with? And start fires with, and make Paper Mache’ with?
The end of the free.
I’m sad that the King Features Syndicate isn’t posting the daily comic’s page anymore. Sigh.
Content costs money, and folks aren’t buying paper copy in any significant number anymore… what’r they gonna do?
write to the public editor of the times to object
it is really narrow-minded and short-termist to restrict the audience for all these well-informed left-wing voices (in a country where good information is hard to get) for a small revenue stream -
public@nytimes.com
Paul Krugman archive here:
http://www.pkarchive.org/
They are posted 1-2 days after NYT run. Most publishers only get first printing rights, what the writer does with them afterwards is up to the writer.