<![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> @yellojkt: He'll give us his solemn assessment, in six months.
Mais Gawker, you never delivered the money shot: quando quando quando? When will I be able to welcome Paul Krugman back into my cache?

Flashman

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> ModestProposal:

My MoDo acronym:

WWIBFFAHPDSOMSCLTC

Woman Who Idiotically Blames Feminism For All Her Problems Despite Some Obviously More Significant Candidates, Like The Culture.

Or, as Feministing put it much more succinctly a few years ago:

"Last I heard, Feminism wasn't a fucking dating service."

Still, if they did away with TimesSelect, I'd probably submit to reading her again.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> can't wait to read maureen's column on how times select died because she couldn't get a man.

ltflux

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> Mo' MoDo, Mo' Money.

Does Friedman still think we can win Iraq in the next six months?

yellojkt

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> If a MILF is a Mother I'd Like to Fuck, what's the proper acronym for Maureen Dowd, a Childless Woman I'd Like to Fucking Kill? Is it CWILFK?

ModestProposal

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> I tried to offer extra money if they'd keep Selena Roberts off my terminal but it didn't work. She came on the line herself and started screaming about entitled white boys at Duke and... oops, that's over, isn't it?

artynimue1

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> @Transuranic: I like Maureen Dowd. Of course, I haven't read anything by her in about two years because I'm too cheap to pay the $49 for TS, but I used to read her.

Ha Ha Sound

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> Biggest newspaper in the country -- going broke.
Largest mortgage lender -- ditto.
Stock market -- circling the drain.
Elvis -- still dead.

PandoraSpocks

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> I suckered up the $49 for Times Select. Gawker got me for 3 t-shirts - a much superior value proposition.

NotAndersonCooper

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> @Ha Ha Sound: *I* was kind of hoping they'd keep the paywall up just so I could finally forget who Maureen Dowd was.

Transuranic

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> (Everyone else either gets it free as part of their home delivery service, or as part of a college/university deal.)

... or, the employees get calls from family and friends for a password when they want to read an article behind the wall.

or so i've, um, heard.

zequ

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> I was kind of hoping that the Times would continues TimeSelect, but only use it so that us non-paying customers would be prevented from reading the endless stories about Karl Rove that the site has been running this week.

Ha Ha Sound

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> Wow, this smacks of serious business reporting. You go Jon Friedman!

TheDes

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> A propos of nothing, is Balk back on jury duty?

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> Friedman = "I'm gonna take somethin' real hard and break it down so folks can finally get it, goshdarnit!"

I can just see his next book: The World Today: These Are Changing Times

tammyfey

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> @IBentMyWookie: I'm with you. That's a matter of tool versus cool in my book. But I like freakonomics. If for nothing else than the study on lowered crime rates and access to safe and free abortion. That takes some balls. Talk about freaking the bejesus out of people.

shesaidwhat

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> Funny thing is that Keith Kelly will probably end up killing Times Select just by writing that it's going to end soon.
It didn't even have to be true, but it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Because Times readers hear that TS will end, there's no incentive to sign up & pay for it.
So any growth of TS is dead!
And the Times will have to dump it because it will soon lose them money.

So, congrats Keith, Rupert should give you a bonus for that column, you've cost Pinch both money & credibility!

Greasy Thumb Guzik

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> Doree, as long as the Glamor Shots and the Pac Sun in the Natick Mall are going strong, I don't think we have to worry. About anything. Ever. They're the world's success barometers.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> @ misterhpppity

dude ... the freakonomics guy is a latterday reinvention of utility theory economics with a blend of behaviorism ... harmless, really

the flat earth guy -- known on the poltix blogs as "the mustache of understanding" is a menace and a plague

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> @MisterHippity:
The "World is Flat" guy (aka Thomas "the 'stache" Friedman). Always the "World is Flat" guy. Never not the "World is Flat" guy.

IBentMyWookie

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> Actually, there are two Freakonomics guys, aren't there? No wonder I can't escape them.

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[The Painful Stagnation Of TimesSelect And Other Bad News]]> I don't know which is more irritating -- that "Freakonomics" guy or that "Word Is Flat" guy. I want both of them to just go away.

MisterHippity

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