New York Times Ready To Charge Online Readers
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If no one clicks, then what? How many adds have you clicked on since Jan 1st? I can’t remember the last time I clicked through. I do recall someone telling me, home delivery newspaper subsriptions are down…so if you do the math and follow the trend of people wanting their news online and no one clicks or we all block ads, the model is broken.
I get your point about something else to pay for….but check out all the papers that folder in 2008 – http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/19/newspaper.decline.layoff/index.html
Papers come and go…but arguably, they are going faster then they are coming. If we value credible reporting, what is that price point? I am suggesting ZERO is not going work…and you will likely move those holdings out of your 401k?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
