I don’t know. But there’s huge speculation on the blogosphere that the New York Times’ choice to begin to charge for its content, with pretty reasonable word that it’s going to charge its online readers. It’s either a decision that could move the newspaper industry to the web.

NYMag claims that “the decision to go paid is monumental for the Times, and culminates a yearlong debate that grew contentious, people close to the talks say. In favor of a paid model were Keller and managing editor Jill Abramson. Nisenholtz and former deputy managing editor Jon Landman, who was until recently in charge of nytimes.com, advocated for a free site.”

Even so, it shows a decline for the end of the newspaper industry. As a recent decision by the Evening Standard in London to consolidate prices and hand the paper away for free, we could soon see the ‘free web’ decline heavily into a state of payment and subscriptions with underdog news websites that don’t get the same attention nor money as the charged ones.

It’s likely that an announcement will be made within a few weeks. The newspaper will likely implement a system in which you can either read a few articles before being asked to pay up, or having basic news stories and being asked to pay for political or sports news.

The New York TImes previously attempted to charge for content with TimesSelect. However, the project was a flop, readers moved away and it ended up being abandoned. If other industry leaders start to follow suit, the ball could really get rolling with this whole charged content.

This could all be in wake of all the recent tablet announcements, like the Sony Dash, Microsoft Courier or apparent ‘iSlate’. We’ll see.

But would the readers stick to the big moguls or move to less popular publications? It’s up to you to decide.