Excellent piece in The Observer from David Mitchell this weekend reflecting on the introduction of The Great Paywall of Murdoch for The Times and on the sometimes pious reactions of rivals including the one he writes for, which is nice and open of them.

Skipping past the pasting of Murdoch then there is a good discussion touching on the Pro-Am issues of journalism and blogging, a little on the challenges of “Free”: which sort of boils down to “embrace and possibly die” and “reject and possibly die too”, and a question on the perception of value. (All of this has happened before of course).

He also calls out those that hide behind “open” as a way of saying “I don’t want to pay for stuff and I shouldn’t have to”.

Read it. I’ll say no more because: “