The brass at the New York Times made a bold move yesterday. They announced that-starting in 2011-they will begin charging to read some of their online content using a type of pay-as-you-read metered monitoring process.

I felt good about this. I know lots of people probably don’t. I think it’s time that somebody takes a stand and attempts to differentiate the qualified journalistic online marketplace from the rest of the content created by iReporters, iWriters, and i-Just-Want-To-Get-My-Name-In-Print wanna-be’s.