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."

Comments

Re:Is this the wave of the future?

[thrillseeker]

Between blogs and indy news sources at least your information will be stripped of the shock sensationalism the major news sources try to rope you in with.

You are joking, right? If anything, they're worse. They're also more likely to promote crackpot conspiracy theories and publish stories with little or no evidence.

Yeah - I look to Newsweek to insure the stories backed by credible evidence ... oh wait.

Re:I'm shocked but not surprised.

[superyooser]

I personally liked the op-eds. Oh well, at least they'll still have their articles.

Not to worry. The NYT's articles contain as much opinion as the op-eds.

Re:They aren't worth free either

[b17bmbr]

who are the bloggers gonna make fun of now? i mean, we all have a blast fisking them on a weekly basis. oh well, we still have howard dean.

Re:Who cares?

[dont_think_twice]

Daily Kos is typically much more intelligent that MoDo. That is not saying much - I have houseplants that are more intelligent than MoDo (although perhaps not as good at rhyming).

But what about Nicholas Kristof or David Brooks or Thomas Friedman? How do you replace them?