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...that's exactly the scenario that was implied - and, Times bosses hope, staved off - by the recent announcement that next year the paper will begin charging for online access. The Times is possibly the most authoritative paper in the world and the most influential online, with 17 million monthly readers. It's done well in most media - except the print medium that's green and is issued by the U.S. Mint...
...online-pay-wall plan is the Times saying things cannot continue at this rate. Something has to give, and the paper is hoping it will be its readers' purse strings. And if not? What would its fans - and its critics - do without...
...plan probably won't make much difference to the Times's coffers or its readers at first. If you subscribe to the print paper, you won't have to pay to read online. If you don't subscribe but read fewer than a yet-to-be-set number of articles, you won't pay. If you come to an article from a link on Google...
...mainly of links to New York Times articles, show that there's still a desire for an arbiter of truth. The idea that I can believe it because I read it in the Times was never 100% true, nor was it true for any other news organization. But the paper represented a certain baseline of agreed-on information. If that no longer exists, what distinguishes a news report from an e-mail rumor your uncle forwarded...
...casual attitude to marriage may carry over to his view of government. "If the president is unable to respect social boundaries such as those created through marriage, how can he be trusted to respect the boundaries erected in terms of the national constitution's checks and balances?" the paper asked. The Johannesburg Star mourned the humiliation of the country: "His rampant libido has made South Africa a laughingstock of the world." (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...