Just read an interesting article in the Sunday Times on why it is to charge on news content, but since its charging there is not link to the page. Thus my problem with paywalls, the Times and Sunday Times is cutting itself off from the the Internet, as in the custom on this blog there is always a link back to the original story but as this blog is a commentary page on American, UK politics and Foreign Policy a lot of news in the public domain, as Presidential remarks and statements from the White House web page, also the BBC has an excellent current news web page. But my main query about pay walls is that current affairs happen in the moment, thus you cant pay wall commentary on a happening event, also pay walls only work if everyone else does the same, once the liberal NYT goes pay wall then this blog will no longer carry links back to its web page. The point of owning a newspaper is to have a political power at the end of the day, so if you cut the views off from your web page what is the point. News is current thus the term current affairs, if your doing business news etc then see the point but with current affairs its a big mistake, readers and blogs will not pay for events that are happening on the news, thus 24 hour news channels. Thus lets fight this folks, lets those in the blog commentary business direct their readers to free news web sites, you don't have to agree with the commentary of that web site but at least its free, its up to the reader to decide if they want to click that link back to the original story, it will be sad lose the Times and Sunday Times but current is current and current is free.
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