What is wrong with the paper of record?
Unimportant rant ahead...
Seriously, I'm thinking of cancelling my Sundays only subscription in protest. The Times has decided to become irrelevant. I'm not kidding. Has everyone seen this TimesSelect feature they've got now? They've put all editorial content and special features behind a pay wall. They've left the commodities out there for free. Krugman's great, Herbert is my pal, Dowd is my hero, Friedman is cool to read every now and then. But c'mon! You want to be a national paper? You want to shape the debate? You want to matter at all?! Don't put the only unique thing about you behind the pay wall!
Yes, they've passed the "internet economic model for dummies" course. Increased revenue minus lost readership/ad rev will still equal profit. However, there's a reason WaPo and the LATimes are partying 8 nights a week. Irrelevancy!!! Krugman means nothing unless people read him. Thomas Friedman can't sell millions of books and be the foremost ed expert on the Middle East or globalization if his column doesn't get emailed around the office. They forgot about Internet 2.0.
All the news that's fit to read if you've got 50 bucks.
Unimportant rant ahead...
Seriously, I'm thinking of cancelling my Sundays only subscription in protest. The Times has decided to become irrelevant. I'm not kidding. Has everyone seen this TimesSelect feature they've got now? They've put all editorial content and special features behind a pay wall. They've left the commodities out there for free. Krugman's great, Herbert is my pal, Dowd is my hero, Friedman is cool to read every now and then. But c'mon! You want to be a national paper? You want to shape the debate? You want to matter at all?! Don't put the only unique thing about you behind the pay wall!
Yes, they've passed the "internet economic model for dummies" course. Increased revenue minus lost readership/ad rev will still equal profit. However, there's a reason WaPo and the LATimes are partying 8 nights a week. Irrelevancy!!! Krugman means nothing unless people read him. Thomas Friedman can't sell millions of books and be the foremost ed expert on the Middle East or globalization if his column doesn't get emailed around the office. They forgot about Internet 2.0.
All the news that's fit to read if you've got 50 bucks.
posted by Potter at 10:25 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah, that subscription service sucks so hard. I have faith that the hackers and pirates of the world will get the word out. I really love Maureen Dowd too...
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