NY Times Preps For Irrelevancy

9:45 am EST January 20th, 2010 | Media | 3 Comments

Not only is the way the NY Times is planning to implement a paid strategy for its web site stupid (most people will just bail after they hit their “free” limit), but it is shortsighted. The Times is not a special niche publication like the WSJ, but – until now at least – the most important and influential paper in the world. After our experience with Judith Miller printing Cheney’s WMD propaganda on the front page, I of course think that’s a bad thing. But you would think the Times would want to retain that cachet. This strategy is a great way to end that.

Die mainstream media, die.

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3 Responses to “NY Times Preps For Irrelevancy”

  1. jr says:
    January 20, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    I can’t believe Matt Yglesias is willing to pay for this shit

  2. merl says:
    January 20, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    didn’t they already try that?

  3. jrfunkenstein says:
    January 21, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    This exercise in pointlessness has been tried by the Times in the nineties, and it failed.

    People will not pay for content they can access elsewhere for free, not unlike Murdoch’s useless online rags; anyone willing to pay for what they can read gratis is an idiot.

    This ridiculous business model is doomed to fail.