NY Times to stop print edition

[Matt Collins]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/09/arthur-sulzberger-we-will_n_710251.html

[Andrew-Austin]

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[Johnnybags]

Noone will bother going on the website to access PRAVDA news.

[WaltM]

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[Vessol]

While I am not a fan of the NY Times or really any newspaper. I do have to say that it is with a little sadness that I watch newspapers die. I've never been fond of them, but seeing something that used to be so big fade away, tis just sad

[DamianTV]

Well I am no fan of the NY Times as a paper, or online. I'll occasionally stumble across links of interest, go to click on them, and low and behold every NY Times tries to force me to signup (for free, of course, and nothing is free) to read their article. When they started this practice, I started the practice of adding them to my HOSTS file.

[Mini-Me]

While I am not a fan of the NY Times or really any newspaper. I do have to say that it is with a little sadness that I watch newspapers die. I've never been fond of them, but seeing something that used to be so big fade away, tis just sad

It's definitely the end of an era, but I can't feel sorry for the New York Times in particular. The Internet may be more convenient than newspapers for a lot of people, but there's also something to be said about having something more substantial in your hands.

The New York Times brought their demise upon themselves not so much because they chose an unsuitable medium, but because they allowed themselves to degenerate into an irrelevant propaganda rag. Ask any conservative what they think of the New York Times, and they'll probably respond with some answer about the "left wing media," etc. That's only half-true, because the New York Times is more of a parrot of the establishment party line than the left wing alone, but the general idea remains the same. Readers have justifiably become jaded about the actual integrity of news reporting, so more and more are branching out and sampling from a larger pool of online sources. The shift in medium is causing a substantial squeeze by itself, but that alone hasn't actually made physical newspapers totally unviable. The real death knell of the New York Times was their refusal to deliver on content and really report the news. (It may be technically incorrect to call it their "death knell," since they still have their online news...but it's membership-based and competing against hundreds of websites with easier access and better content, so they're pretty dead for all intents and purposes.)

[silus]

Maybe its just a smart business decision? :shrug

[Mini-Me]

Maybe its just a smart business decision? :shrug

It might be at this point, but that's probably a coincidence: Failed stock buybacks and membership-only online access kind of testify against the notion that the New York Times is capable of smart business decisions anymore, except by random chance. ;)

[johngr]

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