[lbo-talk] FT to keep "chargewall"; a door policy improves audience quality

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Pearson rethinks FT website
>Richard Wray, communications editor
>
>...Pearson chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino, announcing a strong
>19% rise in annual profits to £502m, admitted that FT.com is likely
>to continue to rely on subscription revenues, retaining its so-called
>'chargewall'. ...
>
>... she said today that the 90,000 subscribers to FT.com represent a
>"rarified audience" including senior figures in business and politics
>across the world and "We have found that to some extent with the
>quality of audience we have got we can provoke the discussion".
>
>"This is not a typical online discussion where people do not reveal
>who they are," she said of some recent FT.com forums.

Hubba hubba!  Just what kind of explicit plutographic chats and intimate 
cyber-gropings can be found at the FT forums?

Carl

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