Re:A Mystery Font That Took Over New York
by matt4077 on Thursday November 22, 2018 @09:00PM
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Because people reading an elaborate, richly designed, deeply researched, and entertainingly written article about a font will really be grasping for straws trying to defend their unwillingness to pay?
It's original reporting, so the usual copout of calling it worthless as soon as it appears in more than one publication doesn't work.
It's a metered paywall, so their insistence that they only read a single article from the NYT, like, once per year is provably wrong.
The topic is rather whimsical, and unlikely to be of much consequence for anybody's life. That makes any sort of appeal to a "right to be informed" or sumsuch rather flimsy.
It's original reporting, so the usual copout of calling it worthless as soon as it appears in more than one publication doesn't work.
It's a metered paywall, so their insistence that they only read a single article from the NYT, like, once per year is provably wrong.
The topic is rather whimsical, and unlikely to be of much consequence for anybody's life. That makes any sort of appeal to a "right to be informed" or sumsuch rather flimsy.