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NYTimes Unveils Online Subscription Plan
An anonymous reader writes "The NYTimes announces their three pricing tiers for digital access. An interesting note: 'Readers who come to Times articles through links from search, blogs and social media like Facebook and Twitter will be able to read those articles, even if they have reached their monthly reading limit. For some search engines, users will have a daily limit of free links to Times articles.'"
I definitely agree. When I attended West Point, one of the requirements at that time was that you were required to read the New York Times every morning (it was delivered to every cadet room, so you shared it with your roommates). Since then, I've always tended to steer towards the newspaper, thinking of it as a quality one, but the fact is it's gotten horribly bad over the years (specifically the time you pointed out). To make matters worse, the NYT still thinks it is the newspaper it used to be in the 1960s, even trying to charge the highest amount for a newspaper that is printed. Even on Kindle, it demands $20, whereas a newspaper like The Washington Post (which I do subscribe to now) is only $12 a month. For reasons that have long been gone, the NYT keeps trying to live in an era where it was the newspaper of quality, but it has relaxed its editorial process so much over the years to where there are times I see it as a little better than some blogs and containing no more content than the AP wires.
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