As if their biased and shoddy reporting and slanted editorials weren't enough, the NY Times is going to start charging you to read their stuff on the web. Article from ABC News says that the Times is struggling with their business model as their readers move to reading the paper on the web. So the Times is going to sock it to you with $15/month charge if you read more than 20 articles a month. $15/month? You gotta be kidding me. Arthur Sulzberger says this should be considered an investment in The Times, "one that will strengthen our ability to provide high-quality journalism..." Well, that would be a nice change - high quality journalism.
Seriously, $15/month is ridiculous. That's half again as much as what the Wall Street Journal charges for both their print and online editions. And I don't want to pay for that either. Most of the news available on the NY Times is available elsewhere at no charge.
I'll probably still check in occasionally. I like David Pogue's column and some of the Tech articles are interesting, but its nothing worth that kind of coin. Its not that I expect to get everything for free. Its just hard to understand the arrogance of the NY Times that thinks they can charge an outlandish price for something that is so easy to get for free.
If the NY Times is having trouble with their business model, even with all the ads, and they think its because readers are moving to reading the paper online, I think they need to re-evaluate where their readers are really moving to - and its probably away from reading the NY Times.
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