[potatolicious]

I'm tech savvy enough to dodge the paywall, but I'm also a paying NYT subscriber. I do it because traditional journalism has nearly completely collapsed, and I don't want to see a world that's solely dominated by TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo-style, he-said-she-said bloggery.

In the last year I've made a concerted effort to subscribe to media sources that have quality reporting and/or writing.

[poblano]

That's wonderful, truly noble -- seriously -- but you, OP, and people like you are probably a very small group, at least compared to the masses of people who are paying simply because they don't know how to jump the paywall (or find it unpleasant to). If the paywall is "working", aka "making money for the NYT," it's mainly because of the techno-illiterates.