Re: Boston Herald Online Goes Pay-Per-View

["Smyth, Sean" <ssmyth@suscom.net>]

<< According to Cosmo Macero in today's Herald, 

http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/coz03032003.htm

some columnists and other stuff will no longer be 
available 
online for free.

There's a mention of Howie Carr's listeners ranting for 
two days about this.

My question:  Would you pay $4.95/month per columnist to
read his/her column? >>

I would be surprised if they got 100 subscriptions. You 
will still be able to access the columns for free through 
power databases at a good deal of libraries. (My school's 
database lets me search through a decade's worth of the 
Globe and Herald, among hundreds of other papers, for no 
charge. So much for $2.95/article fee they charge with 
their archive service.) Just another sign, IMO, that 
they're in deep financial doo over there (paying $150 mil 
for CNC will do that to ya).