We’ve always said that the chance to have sex or watch other people have sex are the only things will pay for online. Brooke Gladstone, host of On The Media, couldn’t agree more.

Interviewing the Vivian Schiller, senior vice president of nytimes.com, Gladstone asked,

Did it occur to you that there are just certain things that people won't want to pay for? I mean, people will pay for porn but they won't pay for Thomas Friedman.

Schiller’s reply is the standard TimesSelect-was-a-success-even-though-it-wasn’t-profitable answer.

Maybe if Tom Friedman hit the gym a bit more the Times wouldn’t be in this mess. Strike that, columnist porn would not have been successful either.