Upside Down
Musing on the Times's announcement the other day, that it is going to charge $49.95 a year to non-subscribers for access to opinion pieces, and chewing on the complaints of Kevin Drum (via The Biscuit Report), I suffered a moment of vertigo. What does it say about Our Modern World that the nation's most arduous newspaper plans to give away its principal product - the news - while charging for access to an accessory - the bloviation? It is hard to resist the implication that news reports aren't worth very much without interpretation by the punditry. Can we rotate 180º?
As a subscriber, I'm happy that I'll be getting access to the newspaper's archives. What a wonderful world life would be without clippings.
