@Dan Knauss -Good information is expensive to create but hard to monetize...

It is the universal truth of Business, that what it costs to offer a product must be exceeded by what the market will pay for it.

This is where things are going downhill for the New York Times. They spend more to create their product than it fetches in the market.

It's worth noting here, that the price that can got for printed-word products - Information - has been consistently falling, for several centuries. Go back to the Gutenberg Brothers, and follow the business forward. Down, down, down goes the market-price for the product.

[Iirc, the early Gutenberg Bibles cost the equivalent of 10s of thousands apiece - several years' wages - and they fought tooth & nail to keep prices as high as possible as long as possible.]

Many small web-businesses have essentially the exact same problem as the NYT. At an earlier point in history, they designed an approach to creating their chosen product, at a certain cost-point (and demand) ... and then subsequently, with changing circumstances, they find the earnings they counted on can't be realized.

It's frustrating, and sympathy is in order. But trying to make the world safe for the NYT's business-model is not in order.