THE ETHICIST TAP : THE CROWN ESSAY

ON THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY : The New York Times is an esteemed and revered ideal of a life-long membership. And !WOW! rises to give The New York Times a standing ovation.

It may be appropriate and a great honour to most gratefully thank all its Editorial Board, Reporters, Writers and every single person directly or indirectly concerned with the publishing. Every single news on !WOW! was published with the name of the author.

FOR WELL OVER A DECADE - The New York Times in their own great, subtle, and sophisticated ways, helped The World Students Society with illuminating, fair and professional content. !WOW! LEARNT.

The NYTimes : '' The world's most important stories, delivered.'' The students get the best of local and global news.

The New York Times helped lay the groundwork for The World Students Society to come together and strategise on building a new and better world for mankind.

For that !WOW! will remain eternally grateful and totally supportive. And we now begin our quest for Global Elections.

[ Q } I canceled my digital subscription to a daily newspaper a couple of months ago, but the company still gives me total access to its content.  Is it ethical to keep reading it?

[ A } IF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION to the ' Pear of the Month Club ' lapses and the boxes of pears keep coming - fragrant Forelies, blushing Bon Rouges, Weston-ready Williamses - your gain is someone's loss.

But for a news outlet, the marginal cost of supporting an online subscriber is close to zero.  What might impose a cost is the task of cutting off your lingering access; someone will have to spend time looking into what has happened.

YOU should alert the newspaper. For all you know, the site routinely leaves accounts open for a period - possibly because it takes a while for the system to revoke access, or they want to remind you of the value of what they provide, or-

Less honorably, because they want to maintain user-engagement stats for advertisers. But maybe it's just a glitch, which the newspaper needs to fix. 

Journalism is increasingly dependent on digital subscribers, and if a glitchy system causes the publications to lose out on subscription revenue, their business model could, as the Brits say, go pear-shaped.

An honest person would send them a message telling them what has happened. Then if the account remains open, you can use it in good conscience.

Even so, the fact that you're still checking the content suggests it has value for you.

Could your cancellation be worth reconsidering?

These have been brutal times for news organizations. While citizen journalism has its place, professional journalism - with its skilled reporters, photographers, editors, illustrators and more - requires real investment.

THEIR WORK shows us worlds beyond our own and can subject our institutions and systems of governance to critical scrutiny.

We're already seeing the consequences of diminished local reporting, and if more newspapers fold, we'll all play the price.

The fruits of journalism don't come free, and they nourish our democracy.

The World Students Society thanks Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah - who teaches philosophy at N.Y.U. His books include '' Cosmopolitanism,'' '' The Honor Code '' and '' The Lies That Bind : Rethinking Identity.''