One Way To Silence Paul Krugman
Mickey Kaus on TimesSelect — the NYT new subscription wall for its columnists:
Why does China have to spend millions on new repressive opinion-blocking technologies and new complicated anti-speech rules when it could just adopt TimesSelect across the board and accomplish the same thing more efficiently and with less controversy?… The NYT might even lease its proprietary TimesSelect technology to threatened dictatorships around the globe as a turnkey solution to their Internet dissent problems. Worried about subversive pro-democracy agitators? Just make them part of TimesSelect’s premium content and they’ll never be heard from again! …
We’d love to see them unbundle the service so we could see the market price for a Krugman or Down column. Put them on eBay, perhaps?
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September 28th, 2005 at 2:52 am
Is it possible the NYT put TimesSelect on its web site to help sheild the public from the likes of Krugman? Nah- that would imply there was a working brain in the organization.
I wonder how many readers the Times has lost due to TimesSelect.
Chuck
September 29th, 2005 at 10:38 am
I heard that the other day the top seven searches on Technorati were for Times columnists … people looking for bootleg versions of the columns.