Remember when people used to read about and write about what New York Times columnists had to say? Remember all those snarky takedowns of MoDo and The Mustache of Understanding? Remember when people linked approvingly to the last Bob Herbert column, or had something to say about Nick Kristof’s latest offering? I think the paywall killed all that. I know that I don’t read any of their crap anymore. The only one I still care about is David Brooks and that is only because he is an irresistible target. The rest of them have become so irrelevant that they no longer get invited on cable news to pontificate.
Today, the Times counted it as an article-read when I merely looked to see what columns they were running. I won’t be doing that again.
