Recently, National Review Online has taken to posting the first 25-33% of an article, with an admonition at the bottom of the page that if you want to read the rest, you need to subscribe. Apparently the idea is to whet a person's appetite so that they'll have to subscribe in order to find out the totality of what the author said.
A little advice, though: if the goal is to write articles that make people want to subscribe in order to finish them, maybe you shouldn't choose this brilliant little piece of satire as the article to do it with.
That is all.
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