{"id":187708,"date":"2011-03-28T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/28\/so-the-new-york-times-has-added-a-paywall\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T00:03:00","slug":"so-the-new-york-times-has-added-a-paywall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/28\/so-the-new-york-times-has-added-a-paywall\/","title":{"rendered":"So The New York Times Has Added a Paywall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure exactly how it works, so I am unsure how the paywall, which limits you to 20 page views a month, would work off a link to this blog, but, at least for now, it works off of Twitter, so I have created a Twitter account, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/I_Read_On_NYT\">The Sh%$ I Read on the <i>New York Times<\/i><\/a>, and I will link to that tweet, which will allow one to see the article without having to deal with their paywall.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to me that this is in accordance with both the spirit and the letter of their paywall, since I am manually tweeting the articles.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of alternatives, most notably the <a href=\"http:\/\/euri.ca\/2011\/03\/21\/get-around-new-york-times-20-article-limit\/?redirect=false\">NYTClean applet<\/a>, and while I might use that myself, I&#8217;m not going to put that on my link page, I figure that someone might go all TOS on my flabby white ass and finding a human at Google\/Blogger in that case is well nigh impossible.<\/p>\n<p>As to how the paywall will work, the <i>Times<\/i> <b>had<\/b> a paywall for a number of years for their opinion pieces, and the net result was that they got a lot less buzz, which is probably why Frank Rich and Bob Herbert <b>both<\/b> decided to leave the paper in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with the <i>NYT<\/i> is too fold, first, and uniquely to them, is the fact that they built, and paid <b>cash<\/b> for a ruinously expensive new office building in Manhattan, and second, and this is <b>not<\/b> unique to them, <a href=\"http:\/\/craigslist.org\/\">Craigslist<\/a> is completely eating their lunches in the tremendously profitable classified ads section.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure as to the solution, though any solution should involve cutting Tom Friedman&#8217;s travel budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure exactly how it works, so I am unsure how the paywall, which limits you to 20 page views a month, would work off a link to this blog, but, at least for now, it works off of Twitter, so I have created a Twitter account, The Sh%$ I Read on the New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1109,1129,1118,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ip","category-journalism","category-meta","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}