Subscription screens

From the Washington Post, via a friend:

"It may be unpopular in the blogosphere, but the New York Times has signed up 135,000 subscribers at 50 bucks a pop for online access to its columnists and other bonus material (plus an equal number of print subscribers who get the service free). Other news outlets are surely taking note."

Unfortunately, this may mean that other papers will put their content behind a subscription screen. So, yes, this should be unpopular in the blogosphere.