more on "Commercialize Christmas, or Else"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net>
Date: December 4, 2005 2:27:13 PM EST
To: brett () lariat org, p3 () wayner org
Cc: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: Fwd: [IP] "Commercialize Christmas, or Else"

Peter:

Dave's list constantly distributes such copies, and I am well aware  
of the
issues, pro and con, involved in doing so. Since the Times has posted  
that
article for all to see, it is not as if anyone was deprived of  
income; in
fact, the Times was saved the expense of the bandwidth and was  
promoted in the
process. Were it my Times column, I'd certainly have no problem with  
having it
published on Dave's list. I beleive that the piece is also on the  
Times' RSS
feed.

By the way, one of the biggest mistakes the Times has made is putting  
some of
its most influential columnists behind a "for pay" firewall. Krugman  
and Dowd
were once influential; now they're invisible. I couldn't imagine a more
self-destructive move for the newspaper to have made.

--Brett Glass


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