New York Times to charge (probably slightly) under $20 a month

It's a pity, since the Times is one of the world's great newspapers, but there's no way in hell I'm paying anything close to $20 a month for web access to it. Considering that getting it delivered in dead tree form is only a little more than twice as much, the upcoming paywall is even more ridiculous. And I suspect that it won't work out well for the paper. The subscription cost of newspapers has always been to offset printing costs while the real money comes from advertisement. Now they're trying to milk subscribers for profit directly. It hasn't worked and won't work, not with so many other sources of news (and indeed, syndicated New York Times content) out there.