You know what they say about red heads… (NYTimes)

Tragedy struck for this news junkie on September 19, 2005. That sad day, the illustrious New York Times decided to join the pack of big-shot old media establishments in trying to make money off its website: Times Select was born.

The work of the seven regular op-ed columnists plus many of the best Times features were just beyond my grasp. What a tease, the headlines and first paragraphs were visible, but then, just as the I could taste the bliss born of good writing, the columns were stolen away. Particularly painful was to me was the forced separation from the indomitable goddess of columnizing Maureen Dowd who gave me hope that, if written well, cynical snarkiness could make it beyond charges of insubordination and spell genuine success (in Pulitzer form).

But alas, The Times has sobered up and made Times Select content available to anybody with a .edu email address.

Goodbye homework, I’m hooked.

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