Comments on: The Return of the Firewall of Sanity

By: Money For Nothing (And Your Maureen Dowd For Free) « Around The Sphere

Money For Nothing (And Your Maureen Dowd For Free) « Around The Sphere — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:36:08 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey: Didn’t they already do that in 2007? Newspapers like to gripe about giving away their product for free on the Internet, but that’s not really accurate. They may not get the same kind of ad rates as they do for their print editions, but advertisers do buy space on newspaper websites. They also don’t mention the readers they get from bloggers linking and discussing their articles, which drive up page views and ad dollars. [...]

By: Mephistefales

Mephistefales — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:27:05 +0000

Good riddance. With subscription only service, only their moonbat base will subscribe, driving their reporting even harder Left, alienating centrists and further reducing circulation (and e-circulation). Lets watch economic Darwinism take its course.

By: volsense

volsense — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:35:50 +0000

When you have to charge a fee for online subscriptions that are more expensive that the stock price for a share of your comapany, then that says something. When bankruptcy becomes inevitable, desperation becomes standard operating procedure. Paying a fee for lies seems to suggest an intellectual deficiency in the subscriber.

By: ddrintn

ddrintn — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:13:24 +0000

You’d think the NYT would have made millions off all that Obama commemorative junk. Guess not.

By: Jeff from WI

Jeff from WI — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:42:38 +0000

Maureen Dowd can see the bankruptcy court from her window.

Paying to read the NYT? I don’t think so!

virgo on July 11, 2009 at 12:02 AM

You’ve got to remember that these old fools came up when they still pretended they were (snickering) “journalists”, a kind of noble class of people, those investigators of corruption, who were spurred onto heroic deeds because of Watergate. I’m sure the current younger crop of so called “journalists” do not bother to portray themselves as anything more than language hookers, paid to be a liberal party gunslinger. At least they’re more honest about their whoreishness than old crones like Dowd & Thomas.

By: iMATTER

iMATTER — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:21:27 +0000

I would totally tell them that their site is worth $20 or $30 a month or more. They live on crystal pedestals.

Then just not sign up. Screw Maureen, Frank, and Bob… they did honesty a long time ago.

By: virgo

virgo — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:02:21 +0000

Maureen Dowd can see the bankruptcy court from her window.

Paying to read the NYT? I don’t think so!

By: Dr Evil

Dr Evil — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:18:10 +0000

There is the Drudge Report, and AP and Reuters Yahoo AOl. I mean I can’t list them all, let the Jayson Blair Times play exclusive maybe they need to build moral support among the staffers:) I am positive no one will come in and fill the void of the paper of record…uh the website of fish wrap (Little Hat Tip to Michelle Malkin) In the age of the hyper highway do they really want to build an overpass over their exit?

By: Dandapani

Dandapani — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:11:07 +0000

I don’t even read the NYT online now when it is free, but requires a “login”.

By: ddrintn

ddrintn — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:57:17 +0000

Paying to read Herbert, Blow and Dowd. GAHHHHH.

By: djn

djn — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:40:58 +0000

Dowdy Dowd is obviously insecure and completely jealous of Palin. She desperately needs to stay relevant to her Northeastern snooty buddies, so she entertains them with her columns that are dirt under Palin’s shoes. Dowdy Dowd is so emotionally frail she can’t understand a woman like Palin, Palin is so far out of her league. Dowd is over the hill and she knows it.

Peggy Noonan on the other hand has no excuse…I hope she leaves the Republican Party along with Gen.Powell. They are both traitors.

By: roninacreage

roninacreage — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:01:18 +0000

I don’t read their website while it’s free. What makes them think I would pay for it?

By: Jeff from WI

Jeff from WI — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:10:23 +0000

Look..we get at least 5-7 main stories spoon fed to us in here…..plus the ‘non-message boards” ones for info.Who needs ANY other media.

By: Rosmerta

Rosmerta — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:50:05 +0000

moonbatkiller on July 10, 2009 at 2:38 PM

That should be bannable. Ed?

Some disgusting stuff gets said at Hot Air but that’s beyond the line.

By: BillaryMcBush

BillaryMcBush — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:08:07 +0000

If you are liberal you can get all the news you need from perezhilton.com

NYT and Washpo are just more wordy boring versions run by more boring wordy liberals.

By: DaMav

DaMav — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:04:21 +0000

I cannot imagine paying even a penny a month to read what is in the NY Times or most of the rest of these liberal, establishment newspapers. It’s just not valuable enough, literally.

By: BillaryMcBush

BillaryMcBush — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:57:28 +0000

If by charging for access, fewer people will be exposed to that vitriolic shell fish afficcionado Maureen Dowd, then for god’s sake charge more.

CHARGE MORE!

By: luvstotango

luvstotango — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:39:58 +0000

Noonan is lower than bat sh*t, on my scale of rogues and traitors…even lower than MoDo.

Modo is just another effed-up liberal, that swallowed that whole woman’s movement…ended up a spinster and childless, after Michael Douglas dumped her ass, for the younger than young, CZJ.

Maybe Noonan needs a long-term assignment in Iran for some reducation. I refuse to click on anything with her name on it…she is irrelevant like the NYTimes.

By: GeneSmith

GeneSmith — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:06:15 +0000

Ed, please don’t refer to that rag as the “paper of record” without using the required scare quotes (“), please?

By: luvstotango

luvstotango — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:34:59 +0000

In all fairness, he wrote that before the Times began rebuilding its Maginot Line to defend itself from on-line readers.

LOL….I don’t think that the Maginot Line of defense, quite worked out for the French…(the Germans just went around and hightailed it to Paris)…what a great plan to save your asses.

A pox on all of those effin idiots.

Oh, and lets strap MoDo to a chair and made to watch Catherine Zeta-Jones marrying Michael Douglas, on a recurring loop, till hell freezes over. Now, that’s a plan I can get behind.

By: madmonkphotog

madmonkphotog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:27:16 +0000

I say it’s time to give the NYT the Old Yeller treatment.

And fast, for America’s sake.

By: UltimateBob

UltimateBob — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:22:43 +0000

Five bucks for Maureen Dowd. That sounds about right.

RobCon on July 10, 2009 at 4:14 PM

Five bucks for that? That’s about $4.75 more than that two bit whore is worth.

By: TXUS

TXUS — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:51:15 +0000

Am I mistaken but isn’t the NYT the very same so-called newspaper that cheered as their Chosen One took over GM and Chrysler and closed car dealers all over the tri-state area, thus killing a lot of ad revenue? That got all randy when He decided to limit the pay of Wall Street bankers and NY insurance execs? That heralded the recent NY state income tax increase (and is begging the Feds to do same or worse) which will hit just about every subscriber or potential subscriber in the city? Not to mention being
the same rag that hires every washed up, lost-in-the-sixties columnist they can find, thus irritating their advertisers even more?

So, in the words of Marie Antoinette, let them eat cake. Or, in my words, s&#t.

By: ddrintn

ddrintn — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:39:25 +0000

What potential 2012 candidate do those who aren’t fans of Palin like these days?
jazz_piano on July 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM

Probably Romney. It’s his “turn”, just as it was Dole’s turn in ’96.

By: Jeff from WI

Jeff from WI — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:28:51 +0000

Maureen Dowd, now there’s 5 miles of ugly road I don’t need to travel.