The Grey Lady Cries Uncle!

The New York Times, which put its Op-Ed columnists and some special articles behind a pay-for-access barricade has knuckled under to market pressures.

Or lack of them, actually.

I'm guessing that Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert (my favorites, your mileage may vary) had quite a few choice words for the management over their readership being whacked by the Times' quixotic policy.

Here is the announcement as it appears on the Opinions page --

A Note to Our Readers

We have ended TimesSelect. All of our Op-Ed and news columns are now available free of charge. Additionally, The New York Times Archive is available free back to 1987. Learn More »

The struggle to monetize online news access will no doubt continue as the Times (and plenty of other newspapers) try to figure out how the Wall Street Journal makes it work and they can't

For now, it's all-you-can-eat reading for free.

Oh, and there's a bonus -- the Times has made its archives back to 1987 available FREE also. And that's a real bonus if you use it for research.

-- Dan Damon

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