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NY Times Op-Ed Page Goes Subscriber-Only
kevinatilusa writes "The New York Times has announced an expanded subscription service to be launched this September. Subscriptions will cost $49.95 per year and include access to both the Times archives (currently available on a pay-by-the-article basis) and to the paper's op-ed columnists (currently available for free, but probably not for long). The Times also posted a more detailed explanation (registration required) for their decision."
The Nytimes is for people with a brain and not seeking titilation. The columnists there defined the talking points of most politically active people. Sure there's the washington post and the LA times which shines in invesitgative news but not so much in analysis or quantity of elite columninsts.
Of course many people liek USA today, wired and salon for quick adrenline producing flash-in-the pan news story. Get that dopmine perk then forget what you just read cause it contained only information and mabe some extrapolative speculation but no serious analysis. That's the distraction you seek, your brain emits some domapmine as a reward.
One the other hand look to the times to tell you in depth penetrating detail the nuances of polotics and regulation and the things that believe it or not actually affect your standard of living more than next nintendo or future shock piece in wired.
Want to interpret what the heck is going on in the middle east. Who yuo gonna read first: freidman or some pre-pubesent web site or god forbid fox news?
Since this comment exceed three paragraphs I seriously doubt you even read it.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
The industry won't die. People want news. Smart people want real news. Smart people are not content to get their information from secondhand blogs written by bored teenagers that simply rehash their own non-reporting. Smart people are not content to get their news from only Reuters and the Associated Press. Newspapers and real reporting will always have a demand, even if it's only the smart people demanding it (sorry, there are a lot of us left).
I'd take Fox over most random blogger wankfest sites, but your point is well taken.
There will soon come a point when people realize the value of good writing, and that such cannot generally be found for free on the Internet. Well read papers such as NYT WSJ and the Economist will always command a loyal, paying audience because of the significance and quality of their work.
Unfortunately, the battle for profitability is made difficult by posers such the ones elsewhere in this thread who miss the message completely to complain about paragraph length and elitism instead.
There are 1.1... kinds of people.
Sign me up, Scooter! WTF is the diference between the NY Times Op-Ed page and the front page?
My wife doesn't listen to me either...