Results tagged “New York Times” from Life's a Pitch

Is it possible that our generation has become so absorbed with the Entitlement of Free that it will to refuse to pay $5 per month for The New York Times? Or is that so not the point. [Via Gawker.]

At long last, the New York Times may have figured out how to make money off its website: by charging for it.

Bloomberg reports that the NYT is floating the idea of charging $5 a month to access its website in a survey of readers. (It also asked if subscribers would be willing to pay $2.50 per month).

...If all 650,000 print subscribers paid $5 a month for the website, that would be an instant $39 million per year. More likely, many people would choose either only the print subscription (old people) or only the online subscription (non-old people). That means that the NYT could potentially sell many more online subscriptions than it sells print subscriptions. Its website is orders of magnitudes more popular than its print product already.

Also on Gawker today, the demise of the democratic comment system. Gawker: Encouraging People To Not Be Idiots Since 2009.

At this point, surely people know what they're getting into when they agree to Daily Show and Colbert Report interviews? Take a look at the unfriendly and unamused Communications Coordinator at minute 1:52. If she is the person the New York Times Communications department chose to put on The TV, what's the rest of that department like?

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It appears New York Times writer and Time Out New York music editor Steve Smith is the latest victim of the Siren Twitter's call.

But what is this? My heart be still: it looks like he's going to Tweet about receiving CDs in the mail and getting off the phone with interviewees! Does it make me the Biggest Publicity Nerd in the Land if that's the best news I've heard all week?

Showered with beauty by today's mail: new CDs from Christopher Tignor, Peter Garland, John Luther Adams, Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola.12:30 PM Apr 6th from web

Just off the phone with Asher Roth: as good an interviewee as I'd expected him to be, and confident in exactly the right way.3:07 PM Apr 7th from web

I was supposed to write "Just off the phone with @asherroth," wasn't I? NOOB. 3:30 PM Apr 7th from web

Finally someone is going to put the day-to-day (and night-after-night) life and times of a music critic out in the open. If Steve live-Tweets a Times assignment meeting...well, I just don't know what I would do.

Follow him here.

My college roommate was in town this weekend and informed me about the completely nauseating Wal-Mart stampede incident. "I read it on the Times site this morning," she said. "It was in the 'Most E mailed' column; that's how I get all my news." Now, this is a girl who's getting her PhD in East Asianist History at Yale, so I strongly doubt the "Most E mailed" column is her one source of current event intel. That said, I see a "Most E mailed" list and I generally read through those articles/blog entries first, whichever site I'm on. Most presenter and orchestra websites already have "Send to a Friend" buttons on their concert listings, so why not have a "Most E mailed" section on their homepages? Other tabs could be "Most Blogged", "Most Read" and "Most Commented" concert pages, although Joe's Pub is the only presenter website I've seen that allows comments on their concert listings.

The New York Times Arts Section:

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Perez Hilton dot com:

(It seems the most commmented posts on Perez Hilton are the ones with the most punctuation in their titles. A marketing thought for presenters? "Eric Owens at Carnegie Hall?!!!")

Composer-performer Caleb Burhans got a 2-and-change page print-edition, 4 page online edition, bonafide Allan Kozinn profile in The New York Times on Sunday.

As of 6:15pm today, he had a total of 58 plays on his MySpace page.

Does this mean 1. MySpace is dead. 2. The Times has no influence over its readers' listening choices. 3. Both.

And if the answer is both, then who or what in this world is actually influencing what music people buy, see and listen to?

"I was in The New York Times, and all I got was these lousy 58 plays."

[The article did not actually link to the MySpace page, but then can we assume that people will not even Google an artist after reading a massive New York Times feature?  Have we become so lazy/disaffected that we can only click-through to where a hyperlink points us?]