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Is The New York Times The Paper Of An Obsolete Record?
from the can't-keep-up-with-the-times dept
We've discussed many times how newspapers simply don't get the internet, and Adam Penenberg is suggesting that there may be no greater example than the NY Times. The Times, of course, was one of the first online newspapers to require online registration and set up a paid archive for articles after a short period of free time online. However, because of that, the New York Times results barely appear at all in Google. If they're striving to be "the paper of record" then they need to be where people are looking -- and these days, people are looking in Google. Penenberg notes that despite the fact that the Times makes very little money off of those archives, they won't open them, because it might endanger their $20 million per year deal with Lexis-Nexis. Talk about getting hung up by legacy systems. Either way, it's a good point that the folks at the NY Times (and other newspapers) need to realize. Being online means being accessible. If you're not, then today's surfers aren't going to care. You may believe you can hang onto a small group and sell their demographic data to advertisers, but the data is dirty and the times are changing. People don't want to jump through hoops when there's a lot of other content out there, and if the command line of the internet is a search engine, these sites that block themselves off are simply making themselves obsolete.
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Price of Clean Data
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is the NYT still important?
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There was too much opinion passing as news on the front page.
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Nexis-Lexis
Maybe someday soon, but right now Google news is not a real source for 'legitimate' journalists, Nexus-Lexis is.
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I'm not for the NYTimes, I think they are a bunch of blowhards, but this nonsense about not getting paid and everything should be free is crap. If you want to charge for what you hard to put on the web, then you should. If you want it free, then so be it. But it shouldn't be by default that something is free.
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News sites ARE biased
Several of my coworkers & I have been informally discussing the slanted styles of different news website for several months.
FoxNews is Republican.
CNN, MSNBC are Democrats.
Mike is right, the next generation won't know or care about The New York Times.
I know I've pretty much forgotten about it.
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Brave New eWorld
Sadly, last week my favourite newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au took the leaf out of NY Times amazon.book of how to fail in a new brave eWorld...
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