Comments on: FT for free http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mistah charley, ph.d. http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-212679 mistah charley, ph.d. Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:22:17 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/#comment-212679 missus charley, m.d. and i get the Financial Times (we are by no means financiers, but it was an option to use airline miles about to expire) and we are favorably impressed with it, not only the reporting, but the cultural stuff and the commentary - the contrast of the editorial opinions with those expressed at the PRE-Murdoch WSJ is quite striking my dad, retired army colonel charley, sr., has had a return to relative sociopolitical sanity since he stopped reading the WSJ a couple of years ago - now he sees how psychotic the still pro-bush views of my stepmother are - this has had the effect of intensifying his unhappiness with his second marriage - who knows if it's good or bad? missus charley, m.d. and i get the Financial Times (we are by no means financiers, but it was an option to use airline miles about to expire) and we are favorably impressed with it, not only the reporting, but the cultural stuff and the commentary – the contrast of the editorial opinions with those expressed at the PRE-Murdoch WSJ is quite striking

my dad, retired army colonel charley, sr., has had a return to relative sociopolitical sanity since he stopped reading the WSJ a couple of years ago – now he sees how psychotic the still pro-bush views of my stepmother are – this has had the effect of intensifying his unhappiness with his second marriage – who knows if it’s good or bad?

]]> By: garhane http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-212598 garhane Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:09:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/#comment-212598 Hold the phone here, this sounds like an echo of an angry old 19th Century German pounding out words on a library table in the British Museum: "...the social conditions of production become absolutely incompatible with the institutions of private property..." You do know what happens after that. But just look at the poetry of it. That rotten Murdoch who grabbed the WSJ, itself a purveyor of the very worst wild reactionary rants---their editorial page was famous as the irrational while their practical business articles were considered the best---and now finds it is not good business to do the pay all who enter here route. Too rich for words. Now we have to see Gates in an hysterical fury over the inroads of a hundred other guys, attempt to put out the operating system for free while creating a hundred hobbles for all customers to stumble over when they attempt to use it. Oh, he has already done that, hasn't he? Would it not be truly great to see these Mastodons race into a solid wall, one after the other. Hold the phone here, this sounds like an echo of an angry old 19th Century German pounding out words on a library table in the British Museum: “…the social conditions of production become absolutely incompatible with the institutions of private property…”

You do know what happens after that.

But just look at the poetry of it. That rotten Murdoch who grabbed the WSJ, itself a purveyor of the very worst wild reactionary rants—-their editorial page was famous as the irrational while their practical business articles were considered the best—-and now finds it is not good business to do the pay all who enter here route. Too rich for words.

Now we have to see Gates in an hysterical fury over the inroads of a hundred other guys, attempt to put out the operating system for free while creating a hundred hobbles for all customers to stumble over when they attempt to use it. Oh, he has already done that, hasn’t he?

Would it not be truly great to see these Mastodons race into a solid wall, one after the other.

]]> By: harry b http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-212548 harry b Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:16:55 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/#comment-212548 There's a typo Henry. 'The FT is a genuinely excellent newspaper' should read 'The FT is <i>the</i> genuinely excellent newspaper'. Unless there's one I haven't come across (relativized to English language, of course). There’s a typo Henry. ‘The FT is a genuinely excellent newspaper’ should read ‘The FT is the genuinely excellent newspaper’. Unless there’s one I haven’t come across (relativized to English language, of course).

]]> By: barrisj http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-212535 barrisj Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:33:14 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/#comment-212535 The NYT giving up its ill-considered "Select" op-ed subscription service went a long way in prompting other major news media with an on-line presence to pack in pay-for-view...and the Times' decision no doubt was edged along by Murdoch's WSJ plans. These people finally figured out that you don't get the eyeballs with a subscription firewall in place. The NYT giving up its ill-considered “Select” op-ed subscription service went a long way in prompting other major news media with an on-line presence to pack in pay-for-view…and the Times’ decision no doubt was edged along by Murdoch’s WSJ plans. These people finally figured out that you don’t get the eyeballs with a subscription firewall in place.

]]> By: Sock Puppet of the Great Satan http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-212528 Sock Puppet of the Great Satan Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:42:49 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/#comment-212528 "There’s a real gap in the US market for an intelligent, internationalist newspaper" The CS Monitor, if it had better circulation, could fill that role. We can get home delivery of the FT, so we get both it and the Monitor. “There’s a real gap in the US market for an intelligent, internationalist newspaper”

The CS Monitor, if it had better circulation, could fill that role.

We can get home delivery of the FT, so we get both it and the Monitor.

]]> By: P O'Neill http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-212519 P O'Neill Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:22:25 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/01/ft-for-free/#comment-212519 One thing I can't tell is whether they intend to include articles that are currently free in the 30/month allowance. But it sounds like they mean the stuff that previously cost i.e. the analysis articles and the business section. Interesting too that they cite the ability of bloggers to link as one consideration in the decision. One thing I can’t tell is whether they intend to include articles that are currently free in the 30/month allowance. But it sounds like they mean the stuff that previously cost i.e. the analysis articles and the business section.

Interesting too that they cite the ability of bloggers to link as one consideration in the decision.

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