This week, The New York Times, boldly following in the footsteps of The Wall Street Journal, instituted a new "pay us or we take our ball and go home" policy.
Again!
Apparently rejecting the age old adage about no education in the second kick of mule, they appear to be going for their doctorate degrees in mule asswhuppins. One source close to the deliberations who was unnamed because he was not authorized to speak on behalf of the paper indicated that this change was made because the market has prematurely abandoned this business model. "Not only are we going to do this but we are also going to bring back the buggy whip, eight track tape players and videocassette recorders (beta).
Both the Journal and The Times have carefully sprinkled enough loopholes in their firewalls to twitter-pate readers with enough access such that they aren't supposed to notice that they are now charging readers hundreds of dollars for what used to be free. What is really strange is that Journal is mostly charging for the crap and leaving the actual news articles of value on the socialist side of the firewall. Go figure.
On a related note, The Washington Post, apparently eschewing the crass capitalism of paygo, is maintaining all of their content on the web free of charge, opting instead to drive their subscribers away by annoying the hell out of them with their new revised display format. Nothing is where it used to be anymore and all their writers, both the brand names and the up and coming nobodies apparently now all have the same access to be ignored by their inevitably diminishing reader base.
Geniuses all!
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