New York Times makes another puzzling move

In the latest questionable use of energy by the New York Times, the paper's online edition has launched Times Skimmer, a page viewer that yet again tries to approximate the experience of reading the hard copy of the paper. While the Times can be rather forward thinking when it comes to multimedia, this latest moves seems like the product of editors who still cling to the idea that the problem is people prefer to read the news in print rather than online. While that may be the line that some people offer up as to why they don't like online newspapers, it's not the real problem and shouldn't be the focus of any time or energy for a paper that's been on the brink of serious financial problems for the past couple years. People don't read the news because they don't read the news, not because they don't like the presentation.