The merde-headery of paid content crosses the Channel.
It was bad enough when Le Monde announced their treacherous, cheese-eating surrender-monkey subscription tactics earlier this week (http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2010/03/23/le-monde-devient-une-marque-globale-sur-le-papier-et-le-numerique_1323279_3236.html#ens_id=1293853), but now the Murdochian insanity has spread to these little islands, too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8588432.stm
Presumably the only reason it's kicking off with The Times, instead of the potentially more profitable online version of the Sun newspaper, is because the latter's readers have yet to evolve the opposable thumbs required to operate a mouse.
Have a great weekend, everyone. And, for those of you stuck in the UK, remember to whack your clocks forward an hour on Sunday morning. (Spring has sprung.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8588432.stm
Presumably the only reason it's kicking off with The Times, instead of the potentially more profitable online version of the Sun newspaper, is because the latter's readers have yet to evolve the opposable thumbs required to operate a mouse.
Have a great weekend, everyone. And, for those of you stuck in the UK, remember to whack your clocks forward an hour on Sunday morning. (Spring has sprung.)