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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (19318)	5/28/2005 1:26:59 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 361250

Let Them Drink Martinis 05.27.2005Richard Bradley Don't you love it when corporate suits reveal just how out of touch they are? At a media conference yesterday, Martin Nisholz, president of New York Times Digital, defended his company's decision to start charging $50 for online access to the Times' archives and its columnists. "There comes a point at which you have to say, 'Where is the value equation?' when you are talking about online media," Nisenhold said. He then added: "For the cost of roughly two and a half martinis, you can have access to the entire archives." Hmmm...I don't know about you, but I'm not throwing back $20 martinis. If Nisholz is, the Times is either a) paying him too much, or b) needs to give his expense account a closer look. But what the paper really needs to consider is how offensive that "let them drink martinis" view of the world is... and whether such a dismissive attitude towards the vast majority of newspaper readers serves the paper well.