The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Sunday, November 13, 2005  

A CERTAIN INCONVENIENCE
A Roundabout Way of Not Getting to Nocera

There is a certain irony, or at least inconvenience, associated with the latest piece from New York Times business columnist Joseph Nocera, “Trying to Wean Internet Users from Free,” which the paper’s web site teases with the following excerpt: “The New York Times is trying to make up for declines in its traditional revenue by charging for portions of its Web site.”

“Charging for portions.” Well, yes, the Times is charging readers for access to certain articles, “TimesSelect,” they call it -- including the self-same article about self-same by Nocera the self-same!

Maybe I’ll catch Nocera’s musings at the public library one day. No rush.

(I can’t help but wonder how many, or how few, readers of the Times on the web, those who haven’t upgraded to “TimesSelect,” are banging their keyboards in frustration at their inability to access John Tierney’s scribblings. Two? Five? Fewer still?)

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