www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: "The great gift that the New York Times gives the world is free access to its articles, opinion-journalists, and stories. In September, that will no longer be the case. They are putting up a $50 toll-booth to 'the work of Op-Ed columnists and some of the best known voices from the news side of The Times and The International Herald Tribune (IHT).' They'll be charging for the privilege of reading MoDo and Krugman and Brooks. I can understand the economics of this, as newspaper circulation declines. But I wonder if, in the long run, this is a wise move on their part. "

Well, there goes one of my last connections to the U.S. It simply won't be worth it for me to pay for a subscription to the New York Times.