Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Fact-Checking Times-Select [Jonah Goldberg]
Robert Alt doesn't buy the Times' face-saving explanation:
Like anything written by the NYT, a little fact-checking is in order. The NYT did not launch TimesSelect back in the early-Al-Gore-invention-days of the Internet, but rather just 2 years ago. Accordingly, it is not credible to say that the Internet has evolved to become more open in any meaningful sense since the advent of TimesSelect. Rather, as the NYT’s VP tacitly concedes here, the real reason behind the change is that the NYT made a bad business decision with TimesSelect—that is, they could make considerably more money by relying on ad revenue rather than restricting access to their op-ed content.
09/19 10:46 AM
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