David Carr on The New York Times Paywall: Reporting Costs Money
The weekend is over, and because your bracket is definitely in shambles (if it isn’t, we hate you), FishbowlNY would like to shift your attention to a smart take on the New York Times paywall, written by David Carr. In a post filed yesterday, he basically says that if people want quality journalism, it had to happen. He explains that while it goes against the idea of an open Internet, reporting and journalism cost money, thus the paywall:
People, real actual people, went and reported that information [about Japan], some of it at personal peril and certainly at gigantic institutional expense.
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