TimesSelect: Only $49.95 for self-destruction

Heck, we’ll pay $49.95 for anyone who thinks that the New York Times decision to put their columnists behind a pay wall is a good idea.* (Still, Gail Collins says “No one has argued that we shouldn’t do this.”)

Take a look at Technorati, a website that tracks blogs. Most of the searches are for the various New York Times columnists, including Washington’s Eye Street Murderer’s Row: Dowd, Brooks, Tierney, Friedman. But the conventional wisdom–that the columns would just simply be cut and pasted and reproduced on various blogs–hasn’t held.

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