NY Times To Charge For Online Content -- Slashdot News Story
You have to take everything posted at Slashdot as if it's a lie or 6 months late, but let's assume this is true, that the NY Times is about to start charging for access to it's content. Don't be fooled by any arguments of falling advertising sales because of the great recession we're in or some desire to fund the high-minded journalism the NY Times purports to have. If the Times goes behind a pay-wall, it's just good, old-fashioned, 19th-century, industrialist greed. They don't just want to make a profit. Like all news papers, they want to operate at 25-35% profit margins, like they did pre-Internet era. Sadly, those days are gone, and no pay wall will bring them back.
