My apologies. I forgot, when I promised to do so last night, that I can’t link to Nicholas Kristof’s column on our page today because The New York Times no longer allows its subscribers to post the columns we’re paying for on the Web. This, of course, presents a problem to us bloggers.
The best I can do is link you to the place where you can pay to read it. (At least the greedy so-and-sos give you the option of a free trial — for a fortnight.)
Of course, there is a vastly superior alternative. You can shell out a lousy four bits and buy the paper, ya cheapskate.
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Amid speculation in the Blogosphere that the NYT’s move to pay-only for real-time access to its editorial content would lessen the newspaper’s impact comes word that one of its stars seems to be boycotting the idea.
According to Editor and Publisher MoDo ain’t doing her part to support TimesSelect.
I am willing to pay for my news, subscribing to the dead-tree versions of The State and The Wall Street Journal; I also subscribe to the online WSJ. Those who run the NYT need to pay bills, but putting only the columnists behind a pay-only wall seems, er, arrogant, a march toward irrelevance. I note too that much of the WSJ’s opinion is or becomes available on its free site, Opinion Journal. One of the best features on the web is the free daily Best of the Web.
In related news, Jay Rosen, a professor of Journalism at New York University, thinks that the WaPo has moved past the NYT to become the greatest national newspaper. Rosen has baggage — his very own “enemy list” — but his views carry some weight.
Speaking of WaPo, anybody out there go to Jim Hoagland’s talk last night at USC? His old college friend, in introducing Hoagland, made some reference to NYT being America’s greatest newspaper…later in his talk, Hoagland (of course) gently dissented from that view.
I don’t read the Post often, but I still would give NYT the edge based on its coverage of the arts (although that’s a sad shell of what it once was). But I gotta admit, TimesSelect bugs me. There’s enough access to free opinion out there that I doubt the “star” appeal of Frank Rich, Krugman, etc. will be enough to make it work.
I liked the way Patterico put it when he was looking for free sites to read Paul Krugman’s columns at “the price they’re actually worth”.
And the new Times Select program inspired me to poetry:
Asked some in the publishing crowd,
“Would some pay for Krugman and Dowd?”
Blogs answered with mirth,
“Those column are worth,
Why, nothing, for crying out loud!”
The NYT and WaPo are Democratic Party rags.
The only national newspaper with any journalism is the Wall Street Journal.
The NYT has sort of talked about the success of its TimesSelect pay-access program.
Kaus wonders why MoDo has not written about the federal prosecutor’s catch and release of fellow NYT’s employee Judith Miller. In fact, none of the NYT’s op-ed corps has had anything to write about Miller and Fitzgerald, even though one of them, Nicholas Kristof, started the whole mess with a column on May 6, 2003. Has TimesSelect
erected a wall that now stands between the public and the elite opinion-makers? Or is there something else that concerns the Grey Lady about this brouhaha?
The only reason there is an investigation of the Plame case is that it is required by law, in order to ascertain if other assets were compromised.
The Department of Justice has a permanent, full-time unit assigned to investigating the leakage of the identities of intelligence agents. They investigated about 400 such cases during the Clinton administration, or 50 a year.
Given several current events, I found a solution for the TimesSelect pay-wall; you can read it here.
The solution to the NY Times is to not read it.
Judith Miller should go back to jail for contempt of court, after claiming to not remember who identified Valerie Plame to her – the source whose identity she spent two months in jail to protect.
Thomas Friedman and Frank Rich are tiresome political hacks who were once capable of much better. I think they have forgotten how.
Don’t you love the condemnation of reporter Judith Miller by the NY Times editorial writers?
Now the rest of the media is piling on.
When they could use Miller as a poster girl for journalistic immunity from revealing sources of information about crime, they did so.
Now, they see Miller as supporting the war in Iraq, or at least undermining the media chant about “There were no WMD”. The NY Times editorial page gage Valerie Plame’s husband, Joe Wilson, space to prop up the lie with his false claim that Iraq had not sought to buy uranium from Niger and other African nations, when in fact, they had done so (as the 9/11 Commission details).
Don’t you love the condemnation of reporter Judith Miller by the NY Times editorial writers?
Now the rest of the media is piling on.
When they could use Miller as a poster girl for journalistic immunity from revealing sources of information about crime, they did so.
Now, they see Miller as supporting the war in Iraq, or at least undermining the media chant about “There were no WMD”. The NY Times editorial page gave Valerie Plame’s husband, Joe Wilson, space to prop up the lie with his false claim that Iraq had not sought to buy uranium from Niger and other African nations, when in fact, they had done so (as the 9/11 Commission details).