Everyone can haz Maureen Dowd
The long nightmare is over. The New York Times is dumping its content firewall, putting all articles back onto the free site, skittering back from near-irrelevancy, and making it much easire for me to get my daily Op-Ed fix. Archives will be free, too! Must be painful to realize that you're not the WSJ.
1. Eh, wot's that sonny? Interweb? LOLCats? Harumph. Back to my cave to scrawl dark messages to a long-forgotten crab I ate last night.
Slowly the newspapers are getting it. I was shocked to find my local rag, the Knoxville News Sentinel (oh there's some linkbait waiting to happen) has dumped the registration and lock-down as well. Parent company Scripps-Howard is like a giant lumbering beast of content, and is only now getting its act together. Like, ya know, how they acquired Pickle:
http://www.centernetworks.com/scripps-networks-acquires-a-pickle
Posted at 11:56PM on Sep 18th 2007 by Victor Agreda Jr