Administrative Note

The New York Times is “considering” charging people to view its website. The nerve of them:

N.Y. Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. was quoted in the article as saying: “It gets to the issue of how comfortable are we training a generation of readers to get quality information for free. That is troubling.”

No! How would we be able to poke fun at the Sunday Styles section? Give them grief over that saccharine Metropolitan Diary feature? First the MTA bans photography, now the Times wants to charge us. The golden era of the internet may be over!

Then again, if, say, the New York Post wants to pick up the slack (permalinks, please!), I wouldn’t be opposed. Guaranteed web traffic — not to mention a great way to justify all those goddamn pop-ups!

Of course, the Daily News already offers free access with permanently linked stories. They may be the one to look towards.