I was catching up on various people's responses to Adam Cohen's polemic about blogger ethics. I read Jarvis, Ann Althouse, and James Wollcott. I had looked over the piece in the Sunday Times, but it was only this morning that I tried to follow the link, and mull his arguments online. But I encountered the Iron Curtain of the NYT's archives:

This is where business model truly evicerates the openness of a dialogue, and one that is important. The NYT's wants to make money on their "content" -- that's their perogative. But it makes it very difficult to have an Internet dialogue with Adam Cohen, for example. Maybe he doesn't care that we can't link to what he wrote, that our reader's can't click through and see his words.

But that matters to me.

The traditional media behemoths have gotten so big that they don't even perceive the disconnects that their business models can create in the discussion going on around the issues they are writing about. That's why they are failing in this new era.