Here and There

I don’t quite have a true commentary ready for The New York Times’s TimesSelect service, which charges a premium for certain parts of the paper’s content (most notably for types like me, the Op-Eds). Initially, I thought it was criminal: charging for something you’ve been giving away for so long. I mean, come on!

Then, the realizations that news needs funding, and that The Times is still one of the U.S.’s leaders in newsgathering, both set in, and I was instantly okay with the whole proposition. Only problem was I didn’t have the eight bucks a month or $50 per year they’re charging for it. Yes, seriously.

What I am writing about, though, is something quite nifty I discovered that I wanted to pass along.

With as little as a Sunday-only subscription to the paper (a relic from my early days at journalism school, held onto mostly for the Times magazine), you can sign up for TimesSelect at no additional charge. Wow, I sound like a salesman now.

So, I’m not sure if the paper (or the [still privately-held] megacorporation that runs it) can punish me for publicizing this little treat. If so, you’ll hear about it … who knows? Maybe in The New York Times itself.

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