Posted
5:41 PM
by Gene
PINCH, if you REALLY want to turn the Web over to "
PSEUDO-NEWS," to "
partisanship, gossip, propaganda, vaudeville masquerading as news," and force people to read only a handful of Web sites, and maybe cause the Internet as an information source to shrivel up, by all means,
charge for yours -- and CHARGE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. (Though we must admit you folks have done pretty well on the partisanship and propaganda angles -- and JAYSON and HOWELL could have
starred in VAUDEVILLE.)
I would further remind you of what happened to
the British paper that shares your name when it tried subscriptions internationally. To use show-biz terminology, it laid an egg.
And a big SHUT-UP to you, Gordon Crovitz. If you're so gung-ho about subscriptions why did Dow Jones buy Marketwatch? To waste more of your shareholders' capital?