It's not a form of blackmail. Newspapers can't survive if everyone reads them on the Internet for free. Digital, rather than paper subscriptions are not just the wave of the future, but the wave of the present.
Exactly. I miss the days of going out to get the Sunday papers in my shorts and then jumping back into bed for several hours of coffee and reading. At some point 10 plus years ago the papers became skinny on news and larger on ad. What they printed I had already read on the internet.
I delivered papers as a kid. Mondays were thin, Wednesdays had circulars and the Sunday paper was 5".
The NYT whether you agree with their politics is still delivering great content and protecting the 1st amendment.
