January 19, 2006

Stifling Dissent: The Entrepreneurial Approach

What if someone hired the most brilliant, outspoken liberal journalists in the USA, then put them in a pen and threw away the key?
Since the Times put the words of its eight Op-Ed columnists behind a paid wall last September, it has also decided that only TimesSelect subscribers should be allowed to e-mail Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, David Brooks, et al.
Reminds me of the Kos story about CNN and other channels getting advertising revenue in exchange for not running negative stories.

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