Adieu Krugman!
I just learned via Crooked Timber that one now has to pay $50 a year to gain access to the New York Times Op-Ed page. I’ll occasionally read something from that page if I see it mentioned elsewhere, but for the most part I find them all to be a bunch of blithering idiots, especially compared with the excellent analysis online every day – for free. Kevin Drum, Jeanne D’Arc, Nathan Newman, and the daily round up of commentary at Cursor.org are a million times better than the NY Times op-ed fare.
Pay to read Thomas Friedman and David Brooks, just so I can complain about them? Really!
I will miss Krugman, however. Hopefully they won’t shut down the Krugman archives!
By way of comparison, the Washington Post has started a new service whereby every story shows a list of blogs referring to that story. For about a year now I’ve already been using the Washington Post, together with the BBC, as my main online news source … I predict the Times will go the way of the dodo.
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Comments
[...] David Brooks’ October 16 column in The New York Times is a case in point. As you may know, Brooks and the Times‘ other big-name columnists are no longer readable online unless you have a paid subscription. I’ve been increasingly persuaded by Kerim Friedman’s anti-lament about this: for the most part I find them all to be a bunch of blithering idiots [...]
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
Like Kerim , I’ve been looking around for an alternative to the Times, in my case not so much because of Krugman (whom I’ve never liked much, at least in column form), but becuase it has long been my first source for national and international news. I’ll probably