Comments on: Poor Dumb New York Times http://www.bradleyrobb.net/on/technology/poor-dumb-new-york-times/ Writing That Puts Story First Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: P. Bradley Robb http://www.bradleyrobb.net/on/technology/poor-dumb-new-york-times/comment-page-1/#comment-4047 P. Bradley Robb Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:57:02 +0000 http://www.bradleyrobb.net/on/?p=833#comment-4047 @Mariane The WSJ has a rather porous pay wall. If you ever want to read a story there, just Google the title and you can go right in. The new NYT pay wall will be metered - you'll be allowed to view a limited number of stories per month and then you'll be prompted to pay. Like anything else, there will be ways around that too. But honest readers, the ones most likely to subscribe? They'll just go somewhere else. @Mariane The WSJ has a rather porous pay wall. If you ever want to read a story there, just Google the title and you can go right in. The new NYT pay wall will be metered – you’ll be allowed to view a limited number of stories per month and then you’ll be prompted to pay. Like anything else, there will be ways around that too.

But honest readers, the ones most likely to subscribe? They’ll just go somewhere else.

]]> By: Mariane http://www.bradleyrobb.net/on/technology/poor-dumb-new-york-times/comment-page-1/#comment-4046 Mariane Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:51:52 +0000 http://www.bradleyrobb.net/on/?p=833#comment-4046 One of the newsletters I subscribed to had a link to a Wall Street Journal story, and said if you're not a web subscriber, click here, and somehow, if you include the direct link to the story, it goes around the paywall. I got in. I guess eventually they'll fix that. One of the newsletters I subscribed to had a link to a Wall Street Journal story, and said if you’re not a web subscriber, click here, and somehow, if you include the direct link to the story, it goes around the paywall. I got in. I guess eventually they’ll fix that.

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