I'm really enjoying the New York Times's "reporting" on its reasons for eliminating worst-idea-ever TimesSelect. Surely it must have been the possibility that the online ad revenue generated by page views by readers coming from other sites would outstrip revenue from TimesSelect subscriptions, and not the losses of the hordes of readers whose intelligence was insulted by being asked to pay to read David Brooks. Really, who could have foreseen this happening?
I am also pleased to note that his imprisonment behind the TimesSelect wall hasn't affected Thomas Friedman's wide-eyed wonderment about the world at all. It turns out there are two cities called Doha and Dalian, which you have probably never of because you are an idiot, and that these cities are just like America! The world is still flat, and getting flatter every day!
The existence of TimesSelect trained me out of instinctively reading everything on the NYT site, and I think that was a good thing.
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Oh my God. How has Thomas Friedman not yet been banned from all forms of communication, effective immediately?
Reading him again after all these years behind the wall felt like if I had left my vaguely unhappy but otherwise unremarkable small town existence after high school and gone on to lead a rich life for ten years, having a host of worldly adventures in other places that, while satisfying in every way, left me wondering what it would be like to revisit the simple life from where I came, and then when I returned home with an open mind to reconnect and patch things up with my estranged parents and vagabond high school chums it turns out that everything I thought might not be that bad about home was 7 million times crappier than anything I'd experienced elsewhere.
Now that the columnists (does Maureen Dowd even write still?) no longer have the excuse of The Wall for their lack of popularity/influence, I hope that the world can truly be exposed to what a drain on society the NYTimes editorial page is.
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