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Ah, ha. So, the Economist is moving its material from behind the paywall and opening it up to the public. Can't imagine it'll lose many subscribers by doing this. It may gain some, in fact. The hat tip for this snippet goes to Megan McArdle, presently in London "for a project, the nature of which will be revealed shortly." And then she adds this great observation: "Watching Sky News is weird, because half the news is about America, and half of that is wrong."
She is lucky that only half of it is wrong. What would she say about a place where the news about America is all wrong, all the time? That's what the wretched consumers of "news" here and here and here and here and here and here have to put up with. Britain and Germany, so often at loggerheads, are united on this front as in both cases it is arrogance that has led to ignorance.
Just thinking. Would that London project, the nature of which Megan will reveal shortly, have anything to do with the Economist? Maybe she's involved in the paper's new digital incubation unit, Project Red Stripe? "We are empowering a small team to develop and bring to market an innovative web-based idea by April 2007," says the FAQ. Busy six months coming up.
Comments
I am not on Project Red Stripe, but something just as interesting. Stand by for an announcement on Tuesday.
Posted by: Jane Galt | October 27, 2006 7:02 PM
It doesn't look free to me - you still have to subscribe to access the online material. What are you on about?
Posted by: Anonymous | October 29, 2006 12:19 PM
Everything, I repeat "everything" on the home page is free. As in FREE, no payment, no subscription fee. And if you go to the the print edition, everything in sections such as "United States", "Asia", "Finance & Economics", "Science & Technology" and "Business" is free. That's what I'm on about. I did write "the Economist is moving its material from behind the paywall". I didn't write "has moved all its material from behind the paywall"!
Posted by: Eamonn | October 29, 2006 1:56 PM