Danny Sullivan has an excellent analysis of some of the more ridiculous statements from WSJ managing editor, Robert Thompson, trashing pretty much everything online. Most of Sullivan's analysis focuses on how ridiculous it is for Thompson to claim that Google makes news readers "promiscuous," so I won't address that again (though, you really should read Sullivan's writeup). Instead, I wanted to focus in one little bit that Sullivan mentions, but doesn't explore too much (other than to mention how insulting it is). Thompson declares that there are "three types of people" online, starting with:

There are the net neanderthals who think everything should be free all the time.

Pretty scary that someone who's the managing editor of the most well known and well-respected business newspaper out there thinks this, huh? First off, I don't know anyone

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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091022/1758016645.shtml

I guess i'm a Neanderthal then haha. With Newsday.com charging for their website next week (I read it for the hockey blogs), and Hulu announcing it will be charging possibly next year, it's only gonna get worse on the internet. Big corps and newspapers thinking it's smart to charge for shit you can get for free elsewhere. good luck schmucks. p.s. i don't read WSJ anyway