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Monday, January 10, 2005
TurkeyBlog speaks out on pay-only Times
It appears that soon readers may have to pay a subscriber's fee to look at the Lying Bastard Sheet online. Instapundit and Kausfiles have been discussing the issue.
In the TurkeyBlog's humble opinion, it's price enough to go through the registration process and maintain an NYT cookie on your machine. I'm not paying a fee for something I use mostly to get my blood pressure back up. Not as long as Joshua Micah Marshall (no link, sorry) is free!
I think the NYT would be making a big mistake here. The WSJ can charge because it has info people need to make informed money decisions. Even with the market not what it once was, a lot of people are investors. The number of people, though, who are in positions where they need to know what the Times had to say this morning is a lot smaller. As NYT will find out if it can no longer count on bloggers and other newsjunkies to provide ad-viewing eyeballs once the little display stops reading, "Register Now, It's Free" and starts reading, "Enter your credit card information here."
posted by gbarto at 11:18 PM
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