Posted
6:33 PM
by Gene
I'm disheartened to learn
the Boston Herald site is the latest to go the subscription route. To be sure, it doesn't update constantly like its Times-owned counterpart Boston.com (ironically, the Times Company is helping out with this), and it was the
Globe that broke the priest-abuse scandal, but I fear if still other papers do this we'll be stuck with just the biggest sites and AP. That said, there are still too many free sites and too many bloggers afoot for subscriptions to work. Information may not be born to be free, but the more it resembles water or electricity, the more it follows the path of least resistance.