Word: timesselect
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...year) or even some foreign policy issue handled poorly by the Bush Administration. No, what drove the community of Internet-savvy Democrats crazy was a new ‘feature’ of the New York Times Online web site: a members only $50 per-year subscription section called TimesSelect, which includes all the op-ed columns of (among others) Princeton economist Paul Krugman and occasional Harvard lecturer Thomas Friedman...
...entertaining or depressing as this speculation may be, however, there are more interesting reasons why TimesSelect may prove a problematic gesture for the paper, if not for internet journalism in general...
Many of these aggregators have readily denounced TimesSelect: even if they themselves are willing to pay the cost, they still can’t use the articles behind the new wall in good faith because to do so would mean relying on their readers to pony up the dough as well. What good is commenting on an article if your audience can only read your thoughts and not the original text...