Goodbye G&M!

The G&M's online paywall will go up on October 22nd (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-globe-to-roll-out-metered-paywall-as-industry-shifts-to-digital-revenue/article4612259/) (click quickly if you want to read it without paying!). This will allow you to read 10 articles per month for free or pay $20 CDN per month to read everything (including Margaret Wente's plagiarized pieces and all of the Enbridge / Conservative Party propaganda).

If ANYONE thinks that this will be a viable business model for them, please tell me. If you answer in the affirmative, I also have a plan: send me $20 CDN per month and in return I will send you plagiarized articles from the Ottawa Sun (I'll download them and then change a couple of choice words and say that I wrote them). Additionally, I will send you Stephen Woodworth (Kitchener MP!) anti-abortion pamphlets bi-monthly. For an additional $5 per month I will send you any sports scores that you're interested in from tsn.ca and I'll throw in some reasons why corporate tax rates are too high. Finally, for the low-low rate of $0.50 per day, I will both (a) e-mail you a reason why global warming is NOT happening (one per day -- some may be repeated, however); and (b) re-tweet any message of your choosing to my (guaranteed) at least 10 followers.

The G&M's paywall will not last more than 6 months. If it does, I will be astonished. How do you NOT fire Margaret Wente? Forget the plagiarism, how did they not fire her when she suggested that a shooting happened because of Quebec's language laws?