Arthur Sulzberger: High School Kids and People Out of Work Will Evade the New York Times's Paywall-to-Be...
AFP:
Some readers will get around paywall: NY Times: The publisher of The New York Times said Wednesday that some people will manage to find ways around paying for the newspaper online but they will mostly be teenagers and the unemployed. "We did create something purposely porous," Arthur Sulzberger said of the system being implemented by the Times to begin charging readers next week for full access to NYTimes.com. "Can people go around the system?" Sulzberger asked during an appearance at The Paley Center for Media here. "The answer is yes. There are going to be ways. "Just as if you run down Sixth Avenue right now and you pass a newsstand and grab the paper and keep running you can actually get the Times free," he said. "We have to accept that. Is it going easy? No. Is it going to be done by the kind of people who buy the quality news and opinion of the New York Times? We don't think so," he said.
"It'll be mostly high school kids and people out of work," Sulzberger said, before adding "I can't believe I said that"...
