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TIMES UP FOR FREE COLUMNS ON PAPER'S WEB SITE (NY Times Charging $49.95/year, Drudge to yank links)
NY Post ^ | 9/14/05 | KEITH J. KELLY

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 ...


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To: jimbo123
I'll wager Dowd, Krugman and the rest of the leftist lot at the Slimes are viewing this new business initiative with considerable trepidation.
61 posted on 09/14/2005 7:51:42 PM PDT by Cautor
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To: jimbo123

What arrogance. $50.00 would buy an awful lot of better quality manure than these twerps shovel.


62 posted on 09/14/2005 8:04:32 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Do you know Landru, Brother?)
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To: jimbo123
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

Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

And Delta should raise rates...

Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

63 posted on 09/14/2005 8:06:59 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: NativeNewYorker
Use Firefox with popup/adblock enabled. I NEVER see junk on Drudge's site.

I get one pop under ad at Drudge with Firefox.

64 posted on 09/14/2005 8:09:59 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: jimbo123

Fifty bucks a year?

Okay.... see, what the NY Times inexplicably fails to remember is that those who are most likely to "subscribe" to their columnists are liberals, and liberals prefer to have their stuff given to them for "free" by the government after the government has confiscated it from their neighbors.

This move by the NYT is one of the oddest things I ever heard of.


65 posted on 09/14/2005 8:18:04 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: jimbo123
$49.95 for Maureen Dowd?

Dowd couldn't get two dollars if she stood in spikey heels all night long in Times Square on a Saturday night.

Leni

66 posted on 09/14/2005 8:19:43 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: jimbo123
Who in their right mind would pay $49.95 to read the rancid thoughts of Frank Rich?

In that context, getting Mo Dowd, Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert for free is hardly a "bonus".

67 posted on 09/14/2005 8:19:46 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: TheBattman
Let's see - I don't go there. Sonow I'm suppose topay $49 a year to not go there????

No, you've got it backwards... For only $49 a year, they won't send you any columns, and won't force you to go to the web site.

Actually, it's a heck of a deal!

Mark

68 posted on 09/14/2005 8:27:31 PM PDT by MarkL (It was a shocking cock-up. The mice were furious!)
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To: an amused spectator
Do we get a discount if we say we're from DU or Move-On?

Let's see next week, they'll offer the $9.99 special.

Thanks for the ping!
69 posted on 09/14/2005 8:34:09 PM PDT by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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To: jimbo123

Kind of silly considering the lockstep mentality of the Liberal MSM. It doesn't matter what the issue is, you will find the same garbage in all the Liberal papers repeating the same exact talking points. One rag is as bad as the next one.

I would love to see the Deer in the headlights look on the editors face when they tell him circulation sunk even further with this bright idea.


70 posted on 09/14/2005 8:40:59 PM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: an amused spectator
Thanks for the ping. A doodle for the occasion...

FGS

71 posted on 09/14/2005 10:20:56 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: coconutt2000

Webmaster: "Our web site traffic is stagnant. No growth."

Editor: "Well, let's start charging for content. That should improve our web traffic."

Now we have a clear insight of how liberals should never run a business or make business decisions.



72 posted on 09/14/2005 11:06:47 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
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To: jimbo123

Wait--lemme charge only 39.99 and I can sum it all up (well, mebbe except for Brooks and Tierney): "We hate Bush"


73 posted on 09/15/2005 5:04:27 AM PDT by Pharmboy (There is no positive correlation between the ability to write, act, sing or dance and being right)
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To: Lancey Howard
Okay.... see, what the NY Times inexplicably fails to remember is that those who are most likely to "subscribe" to their columnists are liberals, and liberals prefer to have their stuff given to them for "free" by the government after the government has confiscated it from their neighbors.

I'm wondering if the public libraries and universities are going to be ponying up for "subscriptions" to these columnists. Many already pay for subscriptions to the NYT hardcopy anyway.

This would come under your government confiscation heading, and would be par for the course.

74 posted on 09/15/2005 5:14:31 AM PDT by an amused spectator (If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
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To: jimbo123

LOLOLOL!!


75 posted on 09/15/2005 6:31:07 AM PDT by Pharmboy (There is no positive correlation between the ability to write, act, sing or dance and being right)
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To: an amused spectator

When I was in high school (c. '60s) it was common for some Social Studies teachers to mandate that students subscribe to the NYT. (At least, it was common around here - - the Philly area.) When I was in 9th grade, I had to buy a subscription to the NYT.

You could be right - - maybe there's some kind of wink-and-nod scheme going on here between the NEA (teachers union) and the NY Times, like there was with the union mob and Jim Wright's book.


76 posted on 09/15/2005 7:41:47 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: jimbo123

Circling the bowl...


77 posted on 09/15/2005 7:43:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Interesting. Thanks for the ping!


78 posted on 09/15/2005 9:00:12 AM PDT by lainie
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To: jimbo123

A model for the free market economy.
When your product is not selling, raise the price!


79 posted on 09/15/2005 9:01:50 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: jimbo123
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.

This is a good thing. Let them find out just how irrelevant they really are.

My prediction, 6 months. (or the Slimes will hide the OL Subscription numbers).

80 posted on 09/15/2005 9:06:22 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you dont have to...." ;)
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