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October 12, 2005
times select
I've been so pissed at the NYTimes for putting their heavy-hitter op-ed pieces behind a subscribers-only wall that I've basically stopped reading anything Times-related (except for doing the crosswords, of course). So this chart at a post over at Daily Kos put a smile on my face.
I mean, blog references aren't the be all end all of citation indexes, but it's pretty sweet to see that this decision to create an online gated community are backfiring. It is a pity that the insights of Tom Friedman, Maureen Dowd, etc… are now available only to people who have $15/month to shell out for journalism and a pity that the NYTimes will only become more beholden to an increasingly elite readership. I remember going to a forum in NYC after September 11th where the international editor of the Times said that any time they put a picture of a dying Palestinian child on the front page they received thousands of irate emails and phone calls. What will happen now when they post something that the paying online subscribers don't want to hear? It is crazy that the BBC does so much better than the Times anyways, and to think that they are public and funded by the government…that's crazy talk. We over here in America know that no high-quality product ever comes out of a government-funded anything.
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