Newspapers are MUCH better digital than paper! At least, the NYT is - a record review will contain clips from the album, a movie review may have a video of a scene narrated by the director, each story is likely to have a slideshow with multiple images instead of the one or two from the printed version. Most of all, though, a digital newspaper is constantly updated, and urgently relevant.

Since the free paper paradigm is well-established, the Times is being rather ballsy with their  1 pound a day fee, but I'm not sure that I know how the quality of reporting can be held up with an otherwise dwindling revenue stream.

And Janie, I'm amused at your assertion that the NYT censors its foreign news; all publications will have their blind spots, and the NYT certainly screwed up with their manipulable reporter during the run-up to the invasion of Iran, but I watch and read the BBC World News and the Times and Guardian, and I've not yet recognized the NYT censorship part you're claiming.

Oh, the one thing I'll miss if all the Times falls behind the fire wall is Chalres Bremner's Times blog about life in France.