by Scott Ott
(2005-09-21) -- In the same week The New York Times launched a $50 per year online subscription service and cut 500 jobs from its payroll, the publisher said today that the new Times Select service will now include "exclusive online access to embittered former reporters."
"We have to look at every revenue opportunity," said publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. "So, we're providing our ex-reporters with subscriber-only blogs where they can spill the beans about their anonymous sources, ideological bias and clever techniques for maintaining the appearance of objectivity."
Industry analysts applauded the move as "the only hope for coaxing 50 bucks out someone who can already read the whole newspaper online for free."
Mr. Sulzberger refused to disclose how many readers had subscribed to Times Select before today, but he added "both of them are delighted so far with their new, deeper relationships with Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof."
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