My friend wrote about the NY Times and their bright idea:

"You are missing an important point. It is a longterm strategy to shake people from the mentality that all content is free. Eventually, they will charge for the whole site."

I doubt it. Here's my reply ....

As the hard copy edition subscriptions shrink, the op-ed section will become more and
more irrelevent. The more dangerous thing is what happens when people wake up and go
a whole month without reading the NY times op-ed section and the sun actully rises
the next day? Then what? You'll never get those people back again.