In my view, in the current times, it is a short-sighted view/approach, as I and other people will simply look elsewhere for their news or information. For example, why should I pay to view their newspaper's pages on the Internet, when I can watch the likes of Bloomberg, CNBC and BBC News live on the TV, whose information is live/even more up to date, or other newspapers which aren't trying to charge fees.
Such organisations need to move with the times (!!
), and accept that no one is going to pay for online access to what is almost already out of date information, when they can access such information from many other (and often "live") sources. The newspapers will have to adapt and raise income in other ways.I would suggest that the Times is in danger of cutting its own throat if it adopts a practice of charging for access to its online articles.
