**The TimesSelect discussion continues**

Reading a front page discussion on PressThink (Jay Rosen's weblog linked from my blog), I came across a good point brough up in a journalism class discussion... Ironically, it arose in a class at George Mason University - the home and general breeding site for libertarian thought in the "worship Ayn Rand" sense.

Here is the concern raised about the new TimesSelect feature:

Outing: “Steve Klein, an online journalism professor at George Mason University, says one of his students raised an excellent point during a class discussion this week about TimesSelect: ‘Even if the Times picked up most of its existing online readers, how are they going to grow a new generation of online Op-Ed readers if they keep the columnists behind a pay firewall?’ Good question.”