No it doesn't. He could subscribe to the online NY Times and get ALL the articles for every day (including Sundays) for less than the cost of printed Sundays alone. So what's the missing element? Taking a fun article to work on Monday?
> If you simply let me read TFA for $1 or $0.50 I would do that 5 or 10 times a month.
The subscription is a major contributor to the problem. Also, NYT does the tricky "change the price to $25/mo after 6 months" game.
"I could buy the entire f*cking Sunday paper for $1.75 and spend three hours reading it on Sunday morning, and take a fun article to work on Monday. I miss those days..."