So much for Times Select
I guess charging the gullible to read its Op-Ed page online was insufficient to lift the New York Times from its financial doldrums, as fourth-quarter earnings came in 41% lower than the previous year.
I guess I could be polite and feign surprise, but really, any business plan that relies on people paying to read Maureen Dowd should be sent straight back to the drawing board.
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As Gabriel Heater used to say to start his news broadcast:
"Ah, there's good news tonight!"
Posted by: mal | January 24, 2006 03:58 PM
TimesSelect made me so furious that I wrote to Mr. Okrent about it, but he was just then handing over the keys to Mr. Calame.
An old sentimentalist about newspapers and hot type, I see every buy-up or fade-out as an obit, but I predicted that the result of the insultingly named TimesSelect would be lower readership of the star columns. Maybe now TimesSelect with that annoying lack of a word space . . . which just makes it ever so much more select . . . will disappear back into the primordial ooze.
Posted by: Emily | January 24, 2006 07:22 PM
Em, I am honored beyond words. :-)
Posted by: Barry | January 24, 2006 07:38 PM
Emily!!!
How are you?
Glad to see you haven't lost your passion!
Posted by: mal | January 26, 2006 05:34 PM