New York Times – the _

Just over 2 years after putting a number of high quality articles behind subscription, NYT sees the light (via):

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Times Co said on Monday it will end its paid TimesSelect Web service and make most of its Web site available for free in the hopes of attracting more readers and higher advertising revenue.

TimesSelect will shut down on Wednesday, two years after the Times launched it, which charges subscribers $7.95 a month or $49.95 a year to read articles by columnists such as Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman.

The trademark orange “T’s” marking premium articles will begin disappearing Tuesday night, said the Web site’s Vice President and General Manager Vivian Schiller. [New York Times to end paid Internet service. Reuters. September 17 2007]

Told you they made the wrong move.

Screenshot. Fair use.

Entitled to their opinion?

I demand the NYT apologize to each and every reader that was deprived of Krugman’s polemics! A dear readers is not enough!

Heh.

[1207] Of a moderate with no moderation

In the NYT:

One day last month, a young man stood at the center of a stage with long ropes bound around each wrist. One pulled him to the left, the other to the right — one toward secularism, the other toward religious extremism. His father struggled to hold him in the middle, shouting “Enough! Enough!” Looking at the religious side, he said, “From here, there is destruction and zeal.” Then looking to the other side, he said, “There, is doom.”

The play, “A Moderate With No Moderation,” had been performed since last November at Al Yamamah College, one of a new group of private schools that are considered a concession to the reform agenda. During the opening performance, religious zealots attacked the audience and the performers and forced a cancellation of the show. But the next day the show went on. [The (Not So) Eagerly Modern Saudi. NYT. May 6 2007]

The tug of war continues.