Suprised to be Surprised
This year I promised myself not to be surprised by how awful our election coverage is, no matter how awful it is. How awful is it? Well, this WSJ op...
Wall Street Journal
Media Morph
Charles Warner | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media
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Newspaper and magazine content will continue to be valuable and read; it will just have a different, far less expensive and more rational distribution channel -- the Internet.
The Height of Absurdity at the Wall Street Journal
Eric Alterman | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media
From today's Wall Street Journal editorial page: "The Washington Post has criticized this as obstinate, and Democratic foreign policy analyst Michael ...
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: the Media Circus over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media
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Bryan Burrough,
Vanity Fair,
Richard X. Bove,
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Fannie Mae,
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Housing Crisis,
Charles Schumer,
Media News
Who knew that when Bryan Burrough fingered CNBC for helping kill off Bear Stearns Cos., he was starting a minitrend?
Wall Street Journal Redraws Business Leaders' Headshots To Reflect Tough Times
CJR | Ryan Chittum | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
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Even The Wall Street Journal's famed stipple portraits (known internally as "hedcuts") aren't immune from the bummer that is the credit crisis. Here'...
Wall Street Journal Raises Cover Price Again
Portfolio.com | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
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Rupert Murdoch must think highly of the changes he's made to The Wall Street Journal: He expects readers to pay one-third more for it. Starting on Ju...
Fox Business Snatches WSJ's Walt Mossberg From CNBC
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
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You had to know Rupert Murdoch's fledgling Fox Business Network would get something out of this whole Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal acquisition. Well,...
Wall Street Journal Online Sees Traffic Explosion, Uniques Up 94% Over Last Year Despite Paywall
MediaWeek | Mike Shields | Posted 07.03.2008 | Media
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The Wall Street Journal's Web site has enjoyed significant traffic growth of late, while still managing to keep its vaunted--and some predicted, doome...
Another Small Pleasure
Jan Herman | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
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Long before Murdoch took over The WSJ, it had an enviable tradition of reporting factual news in a "storytelling" format, which its reporters were trained to do better than most.
Meet Mr. Gasbag, WSJ-style vs. NYT-style
Jan Herman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
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Here two excerpts, from the Times and Journal. Both show McCain for what he really is -- a pandering gasbag. But one story does it better than the other. You be the judge.
Study: Newspapers' Op-Eds Dominated By Men Who Agree With Editorial Page
New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media
In the great marketplace of ideas, the opinion pages of major newspapers offer nonjournalists -- mainly academics -- a rare chance to reach a big audi...
Wall Street Journal Shake-Up: Paper Makes Major Changes To Editorial Team
Editor & Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
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Robert Thomson, editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, announced a new editorial leadership structure on Thursday that he claims will "expedite d...
WSJ. Meets And Greets In Style At New York's Ago Restaurant
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
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Nanette Lepore,
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Cynthia Rowley,
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Rory Tahari,
Robert DeNiro,
Ago,
Media News
Thursday night, the Wall Street Journal's upcoming glossy magazine, WSJ., hosted a party at Ago in the Greenwich Hotel to introduce its editorial team...
How The Wall Street Journal Fabricated a Scandal to Impugn an Obama Supporter, James Johnson
David Fiderer | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media
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A year ago, it would never have occurred to me that the initial news story in the Journal was intended as a setup for a larger partisan narrative. But that was then.
The Case Against the Victory Garden
Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living
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Save Money Groceries,
Cooking,
Gardening,
Cleaning,
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Gardens,
Living News
The home-garden micro-trend runs counter to the tidal wave of food outsourcing that's swept through grocery stores over the past 20 years.
Measuring "Digital Escape Velocity:" When Digital Revenues Offset Traditional Media Losses
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home
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Google,
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Home News
"Technology is the greatest change agent that humanity has ever seen." There can be little argument that for the last generation technology ...
Rove's Obama Hit-Job Re-Run Oozes Out of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Section
Rob Kall | Posted 05.29.2008 | Media
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Rove and the GOP are tired. The WSJ is leaking and it's a sad thing that a formerly trusted institution has begun the much expected, post-Murdoch acquisition slippery slide.
Rupert Murdoch Says Obama Will Win
Hilary Rosen | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
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Wednesday night, at the "All Things Digital" conference, Murdoch said this about Barack Obama: "He is a rock star. I love what he is saying about education. I think he will win and I am anxious to meet him."
Karl Rove's Pundit Problem
Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media
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John Conyers,
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Breaking Media News,
Don Siegelman,
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60 Minutes,
Newsweek,
Norah O'Donell,
Media News
Why is TV's newest talking head being held up as a paragon of political analysis at the very moment the Republican president he helped mold is in complete free fall?
Setting The Story Straight
Vinod Khosla | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
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Renewal,
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While I appreciate the Journal's foray into fiction writing, I would like to clarify a few of the facts and offer a more rounded view of biofuels and ethanol in general.
Robert Thomson Named Editor Of Wall Street Journal
AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 05.20.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. named Robert Thomson managing editor of The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, following the resignation las...
John Bolton On Diplomacy: 1% Difference Between McCain, Obama
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
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Storied Bush administration anger-droid John Bolton injects himself into the harebrained "appeasement" debate raging between the Obama and McCain camp...
The Wall Street Journal's "Really Personal" Finance
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
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No matter who you believe is at fault in the subprime crisis -- borrowers, lenders, Jimmy Cayne, Alan Greenspan -- it's clear that millions of people ...
Miracle Cures: The "new" Wall Street Journal Falls Short
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.10.2008 | Home
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Malcolm Gladwell,
Thomas L. Friedman,
Dennis Berman,
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Tom Peters,
Google,
The New York Times,
Home News
Here's something we don't see all that often: three signs of the apocalypse in a single story. It happened last week in The Wall Street Journal, whi...
Forget Obama vs. Clinton...Are You for Dogs or Cats? Tuesday or Wednesday?
Candy Spelling | Posted 05.10.2008 | Living
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Just when I thought all the polling questions had been asked, the Wall Street Journal came through with a story about brides who survey their friends about wedding decisions.
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