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Ed: Thanks to Aaron for the story tip! Goof Lets Times’ Content Go Free By Cyrus Farivar Wired News 02:00 AM Sep. 22, 2005 PT On Monday, The New York Times introduced the first paid section of its online version. In less than 24 hours, someone found a way around the TimesSelect paid subscription service. Never Pay Retail was created on the same day that TimesSelect began. The blog links to other newspapers that syndicate the Times’ Op-Ed content and…

In a way, I’m kinda glad that I cover technology, so that stuff like this doesn’t happen because of something that I write. Newsweek apologized yesterday for printing a small item on May 9 about reported desecration of the Koran by American guards at Guant‡namo Bay, Cuba, an item linked to riots in Pakistan and Afghanistan that led to the deaths of at least 17 people. But the magazine, while acknowledging possible errors in the article, stopped short of retracting…

This is absurd. Print newspapers as we know them will be dead within my lifetime. Why should I pick up a stack of dead trees and read the news a day after it actually happens, when I can get up-to-the-minute information from that same news source electronically? Magazines, on the other hand, feature magazines, like the New Yorker or Wired, I don’t think will die. Why? Because they don’t rely on immediate breaking news for their bread and butter. I…

Sy Hersh gets skewered by Chris Suellentrop (of Slate fame) in New York magazine. (Via Instapundit NYT on Bush’s iPod

NYT : Beginning next Thursday, as part of a reorganization of technology news coverage, the weekly Circuits pages will appear in Business Day, with David Pogue’s column on the front page of that section. The Game Theory column will move to the Weekend section, beginning on April 8. The Online Shopper column will return on April 14 in a section to be introduced that day. Circuits will also appear several times a year as a special section, beginning with a…

E&P: (via TechDirt) NEW YORK Attention Associated Press members, prepare to get more for your money: Now available, two leads for the price of one. In a break with tradition at the 156-year-old news cooperative, the AP will now offer two different leads for many of its news stories, the organization confirmed Wednesday. “The concept is simple: On major spot stories — especially when events happen early in the day — we will provide you with two versions to choose…

The New York Times has finally caught on to the idea that the dot-com bubble has burst. Executive Editor Bill Keller is said to be planning to end “Circuits” as a stand-alone section covering the high-tech world by the end of April. In its place, he’s said to be mulling a new section dedicated to shopping, fitness and fashion. Trip Gabriel at Sunday Styles, and the Science section’s Rick Flaste, are rumored to be the editors in line to head…

Apparently the J-school faculty has final veto power over who our graduation speaker is. I (and I know many of the other students do as well) want Jon Stewart. Guys, we’ve been working our asses off for months and months, are we really going to gain anything by hearing some bigshot inspirational speaker to wow us with their waxing prose? Can’t we just take ourselves not so damned seriously for one day, and let Jon Stewart serve as King Lear’s…

Lemme know what you think. I was pretty happy with it. (Again, if you missed it, the interview was in relation to this story.) InterviewWFLA540AM.2005-02-07.mp3 [5.7 MB (12:27) 64 kbps]