AUSTIN, TEXAS: Editor's Note: Goodbye, New York Times Links!

SLATE/ Jack Shafer

Today, the NYTIMES enforces a new paywall.
Sadly, because of that, this blog will NO LONGER automatically provide links to the NYTimes.com.
Of course, the editor will continue to read the NYTimes...in its hard copy version...but will not use a personal link to allow visitors to bypass paywall limits.
Why not?
To respect the NYTimes' need for additional income...with their paywall experiment.
In the past, this blog has respected the Wall Street Journals's paywall...even though the editor reads the hard copy version daily.
The one and only time readers were allowed access past the WSJ's paywall with a personal link ...over 250 visitors used it.
While I don't agree with CEO Rupert Murdoch's politics or ethics...I do respect his company's shareholders and vowed not to link to the WSJ again...unless it was freely available via Google Search.
That will now also be the policy... for the NYTIMES.

MEDIA: Murdoch's Newspapers May Block Google News Search.

GUARDIAN.UK/
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch claims he will remove stories from Google's search index to force people to pay for content online.
Murdoch said his newspapers - the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal – would consider blocking Google after enacting plans to charge people for reading their stories on the web. "The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it – steal our stories, we say they steal our stories - they just take them," he said. "That's Google, that's Microsoft, that's Ask.com, a whole lot of people ... they shouldn't have had it free all the time, and I think we've been asleep."

Who's Afraid Of Big, Bad...Rupert Murdoch?

VANITY FAIR/
In the November "Vanity Fair", writer Michael Wolff describes the internet ignorance of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his war against free content.
Wolff observes that Murdoch believes "newspapers are suffering not at the hands of technological forces beyond their control but at the hands of proprietors who are weaker than he is." Thus, all Murdoch has to do...is bully them into action.

Charging For Online Content: A Lot Of Ideas, Little Action.

NYTIMES.
Are the days of "The Hypervigant Observer" giving FREE news summaries AND hyperlinks numbered?
“There is no unanimity among publishers about what to do — whether to charge for content, how to charge, whose solutions to use — and most people in the business still don’t believe they can put up a pay wall without repelling a large part of their audience,” said Alan D. Mutter, a media entrepreneur and consultant. “I doubt you’re going to see a lot of companies spend a lot of money building a system for the newspaper industry as long as there’s no resolve on the part of the industry about what they want to do.”

More On Murdoch, The Media And Newspaper Pay Walls.

NYTimes.

News Corp. To Charge For All Online Content.

From the BBC.

Suffering from steeply falling revenues, News Corps Chairman Rupert Murdoch says it will be charging for access to ALL its web sites by 2010.