AS ALWAYS, LIFE IMITATES IOWAHAWK:
Shot: “In New York, Scrappy Local Newspaper Struggles For Survival.”
—Iowahawk headline, December, 2003.
Chaser: “New York Times Experiments With Ways to Fight Ad Blocking.”
—The Wall Street Journal, yesterday.
Hangover: “One strategy includes a message that prompts the user to either allow the Times’ website past the ad blocker or to sign up for a digital subscription. ‘The best things aren’t free,’ the message read.”
—Business Insider, yesterday.
I wonder how that last message is playing with Times’ young socialist Obamacare, Bernie Sanders, Occupy Wall Street-supporting readers?