Has anyone ever “audited” the paywall (my anecdotal experience is that there are months when I *never* bump up against it, regardless of the number of stories I view).

Since taking a hit to their very large page view count (and therefore CPM base charged against advertisers) was a *major* concern about moving to the paywall, this would seem an obvious – if corrupt – workaround.

Since the NYT Berlin Paywall was really calculated more to keep NYT onanists in, than drive-bys out (else why the laughably easy circumvention techniques) turning the thing off periodically to goose drive-by pageviews seems like a distinctly possible strategy.

Anybody ever ask *that* question?

Now that they have been economically gutted by the internet, they have “discovered” a number of issues they somehow never knew existed before – like the grotesque economics of public sector pensions (otherwise known as vote selling).

It seems the more the MSM bleeds, the more awake they become.

This is bad?

2) What is the average subscription period?

3) Does the picket-fence paywall apply to all NYT sites (Dealbook, Economix, etc?)

There are a *lot* of questions about the NYT “paywall success” that never seem to get answered…or asked…