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...London's Financial Times. If it works anything like FT.com, after viewing a certain number of articles, readers will be directed to a page where they have to subscribe if they want more of the Times' newsy goodness. Old-school newspaper subscribers, bless their hearts, will get access for free. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...Many of the crucial details have yet to be ironed out: How many pages will people be able to see for free? By what mechanism will people pay? Will it be a paywall or more of a metered system? Can you pay not to get Maureen Dowd? "This announcement allows us to begin the thought process that's going to answer so many of the questions that we all care about," company chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. deflectingly told his own paper. "We can't get this halfway right or three-quarters of the way right. We have...
...appeal of the Times' approach is that while it doesn't cut the paper off completely to all those ad-revenue-generating eyeballs, it also doesn't continue to give away the store for free. The downside is that it's neither fish nor fowl: people who might pay for the paper are still going to try to get it for free if there's a way to do so. At the same time, the pay plan will limit the website's traffic - at 17 million monthly readers, it's the biggest of the newspaper websites - and therefore...
...That's not true. There are certain component parts of it, of course. The fact that we have made an effort to insure everybody. But we passed our plan without cutting Medicare. We didn't raise taxes. It was all self-sufficient. It was done through a free-market system where people could go in and [comparison shop] for a plan, and if they couldn't afford it, they would get a form of government subsidy...
...been over 10 years since the crime went to trial, and both suspects, after serving some prison time, are free. Now, the Burger King murder is back. Last month, prosecutors reopened the case after the unresolved crime got a wave of attention from a South Korean film and several television series this fall. Critics have long said the trial was bungled, claiming that a 1966 bilateral treaty (SOFA), which outlines the legal rights and responsibilities of U.S. soldiers in South Korea, hinders investigations into crimes committed by American servicemen and their families in South Korea. In 1998, the court dropped...