Not only has the New York Times banished its columnists behind its pay-us-first wall, but it’s done the same thing with the terrific Opinionator blog by Chris Sullentrop.
Even more bizarre, each posting has a “Link to This” hyperlink that goes — you guessed it — to the pay-us-first registration page. Can you say “Sheesh…”?
on Feb 14th, 2006 at 6:01 am
[…] The mensa mandarins at the NYT want to charge people to visit their blog. […]
on Feb 14th, 2006 at 11:53 am
First Hill Hearing To Be ‘Live-Blogged’…
The rise of blogs within Washington made this breaking news inevitable: A House subcommittee for the first time will make room for citizen journalists to “live-blog” a congressional hearing. The International Relations Subcommittee on Global Human Ri…