Cheaper by the roll at Costco.
Posted on 09/14/2005 5:16:40 AM PDT by jimbo123
The New York Times, which had been operating an all-free Web site, nytimes.com, will begin charging a fee for access to its major columnists under a new program called Times Select.
Starting Sept. 19, the New York Times will charge $49.95 a year for online users to access 22 columnists including Tom Friedman, David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Bob Herbert, Nicholas Kristof and Frank Rich.
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Cybergossip Matt Drudge is threatening to boot the Times columnists.
"I will yank the Times scribes if I can't find other outlets that are planning to carry them," threatened Drudge. "The Internet is losing its innocence."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
You mean people would PAY to read that crap online????
Webmaster: "Our web site traffic is stagnant. No growth."
Editor: "Well, let's start charging for content. That should improve our web traffic."
If you paid me $49.95 I still wouldn't read this drivel.
LOL - I rarely go to Drudge anymore, since I get bombarded with popups, spyware, adware, etc. He's a huckster.
who do they think they are charging for their content?
the wall street journal
"The Internet is losing its innocence."
I nearly spit my coffee on my monitor. What innocence? The man's either completely ignorant or he's using a soundbite he knows isn't true.
Let's see - I don't go there. Sonow I'm suppose topay $49 a year to not go there????
No more calls. We have a winner.
Ping
The NYY accelerates its sinking into irrelevance. RIP NYT.
The money will be donated to Maureen Dowd's Duracell fund.
For 49.95 you get access to 72 commies? No thanks.
i second that! the old gray lady is in trouble..
Cheaper by the roll at Costco.
I hope it's a large caliber they shoot their foot with.
LOL.....I thought it said that the NYS was going to pay people to read their 'news' paper.
Damn! I already boycott them....Now I can't drop them in protest.
Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame, once came up with tbe brilliant idea of selling rancid pond water with the sign "Calvin's toxic swamp concoction. One dollar not to drink." Sounds about the same. That's a shame, because I have a NYTimes membeship, and I only use it in linking.
If we all chip in, we can pay one cent each for one person to get a membership, and then post the tripe for the rest of us to "read".
Atypical of Libs, raise taxes and think their economy is going to grow.
Why the halfway measure? The Times should up its newsstand price to $5.00 a copy and cutoff its readers entirely.
Let's see - I don't go there. Sonow I'm suppose topay $49 a year to not go there????
Hey this is going to be just like NPR!!! Paying for totally worthless drivel that you wouldn't listen to, if it were free.
As its editorial policies repeatedly demonstrate, the Times does not understand the economic concept of elasticity. Consumers of news have many choices is a highly competitive marketplace. More competently written and analyzed news is readily available elsewhere. This will help spur the conversion from the Old Media to the New: the Information Revolution. At last, the Times journalists are assisting a worthwhile revolution.
Charging people always improves things.
I haven't been to Drudge in months since my pop up blocker sounds like a popcorn popper when I go there and virtually everyhting he posts is recycled news from network sources.
*chuckle*
The NYT's is probably a lot like a night club that is barely bringing in customers. To improve the number of patrons, the nightclub owner decides to charge a cover.
The owner did not use the money to hire a hot DJ, or a band...
Forget paying the Times anything....they get their points across with the MSM spewing their talking points.
Drudge overestimates his importance..sigh. It hasn't hurt FR one bit :)
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Got to make up for the loss in revenue from circulation of the print version somehow. It looks like the ol' gray mare is going to put itself out of its own misery.
None of these yahoos are worth two cents, much less $49.95. I pay an online subscription to the WSJ and it's worth every penny. The NYT? They can rot....
Use Firefox with popup/adblock enabled. I NEVER see junk on Drudge's site.
Thanks but I'll just avoid his site. I'm happy with my existing popup blocker and no other site bombards you like his.
I received this email from the NY Times yesterday:
We want you to know about some exciting changes that will
soon take place on NYTimes.com.
My reply: Paying good money for your offering is not my idea of "exciting changes." I could not in anyway bring myself to support you financially. Your product is worth exactly what I have been paying for it: nothing.
That's not a very good business model. What they should do is use pop-ups to force people to see these columns, and charge $49.95 to eliminate the crap. Cheap at ten times the price!
We must keep Mo Dowd on the web!
Why else would we post CZJ pictures?
Have you ever heard of a pop up blocker?
Just whom do they think is going to pay to read them?
Assume you are a consulting service (not a must have, but a nice to have). Business has been flat and/or declining for 5 years. You have a decision to make: Should I raise prices, keep prices the same, or lower them? Does rational thought ever enter the picture? Does the fact that customers have been defecting or reducing their spend make a difference? Should it?
My guess would be that is most NY Times employees were asked, they would say the hypothetical compnay should keep prices flat, or even reduce them so as to keep or even increase customers.
But, when it comes to them, they think people are begging to pay higher prices for the same thing.
Web page for e-mail addresses
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/infoservdirectory.html#ases:
Yes I have, wiseguy - and it usually works just fine. The Drudge site puts it into overdrive. He throws everything at you on his site to gum up your computer. So his complaints about the "innocence" of the internet is laughable. Plus his site is rehashed Chicken Little crap, with some fey Hollywood gossip thrown in. No thanks.
you know what's so great about this...??????
conservatives don't need to "sensor" or "destroy" the NY Times... once they charge to read it...by-bye... I can see all the college students paying for it (uh-huh).. I can see all the Birkenstock slobs in Seattle paying for it on-line (sure) and all the liberal voters from say.... New Orleans, Detroit, Washington DC and similar ghettos paying for an on-line subscription.... this is hilarious.
In 5 years the New York times will turn into the "Green Sheet"... all personals, local real estate and pets advertising... and all the "great journalist" will call for government funding to guarantee.."freedom of the press" in order to meet their bloated payroll.... I LOVE IT!!!!! roflmao.
I think if the NYT gets any more expensive and delivers less, we will need to provide government subsidies - you know like health care - it has gotten so expensive we need to have the government pay for it.
And New Orleans once had a quarterback named Bobby Hebert. (Just saw that Seinfeld rerun last night)
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