{"id":2895,"date":"2011-03-18T18:44:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2011-03-18T18:44:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T18:44:55","slug":"costbenefit_ana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2895","title":{"rendered":"Cost\/Benefit Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>NY Times<\/i> unveiled its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/18\/business\/media\/18times.html?_r=1&amp;ref=technology\">paywall scheme<\/a> yesterday and it&#8217;s priced a little higher than I&#8217;d like. The cheapest subscription is $15 every 4 weeks for web and smartphone access. I don&#8217;t do much reading on my iPhone, so I don&#8217;t appreciate having to pay for a combo package. But I do get most of my news from the <i>Times <\/i>and I generally like the writing and add-on features like the blogs. Perhaps I&#8217;m just feeling subscription fatigue since I already subscribe to several magazines and digital services. $15 isn&#8217;t a big deal for me, but it will probably be out of reach for people on tight budgets, which only reinforces the <i>Times<\/i>&#8216; reputation as the urban yuppie paper of record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times unveiled its paywall scheme yesterday and it&#8217;s priced a little higher than I&#8217;d like. The cheapest subscription is $15 every 4 weeks for web and smartphone access. I don&#8217;t do much reading on my iPhone, so I don&#8217;t appreciate having to pay for a combo package. But I do get most of <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2895' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-KH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}