Drudge is going to pull their links...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484167/posts
Electronic Err America.
Will they also require pay to view the corrections page? Often, one can find almost entire Krugman columns there soon after the original publication. Or you can find them at NR where they have a space dedicated to ridiculing Krugman and others almost line by line.
ROFLMAO. Who would pay to read Dowd?
Like athlete's foot they are everywhere, but that doesn't make them popular.
They are popular amongst the leftist readers of Editor & Publisher, who relish foisting them on their captive readers along with the unfunny Doonesbury.
No one is going to pay good money for their rants.
LOL. Do you think there is ONE SINGLE PERSON out there right now that is saying, "Heyyy, that sounds like a great deal! Honey, where's the checkbook?"
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
It's really amusing to think that the NYT heads think their columnists are so good that we peons need to pay to receive their wisdom.
oh yeah. gonna run out and order subscriptions for Christmas presents. Ha,ha. This oughta be awesome.
In a related story, ABC, CBS, and NBC will begin charging $100 per year for access to their websites allowing them to run the websites for free because their server would only need capacity for a handful of hits per day. /sarcasm
Hahahahahaha.
Only if I can pay for my subscription with Kotex and toilet paper.
Yeah! They can have that last one I "cut loose" after eating some cheese.....
Not only NO, but HE** no.
Shows how much the New York Times cares about the poor.
Real life can really be stranger than fiction. I can't imagine anyone being Dowd's fan, much less paying to read her incoherent ramblings.
I have a better idea. Go to your local pub, and you will find better commentators on national issues.
He added, commenting on "free" falling: "If the Times' idea catches on, this really could be the beginning of the end of the current state of Internet news."
Sure it'll catch on; like athelete's foot. Boy do these folks have an inflated view of themselves; thinking that people would be willing to pay to read their opinions. /shake head
So here's the thinking behind that brilliant move. None of us ever read Krugman or Dowd except when a conservative columnist is quoting some outlandishly knuckle headed point Paul or Mo is trying to make. When we read it we say. "No way, s/he couldn't be that big of a nutball." And we immediately go online to find the original column. When we read the original column and realize the quotes weren't taken out of context we say, "for crying out loud the guys at powerlineblog.com or George Will or Rush or whomever were right again." Now the NYT wants us to pay for the privilege. It does make sense.