By Ryan Tate, 4:19 AM on Thu Oct 30 2008, 311 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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When Robert Thomson's Wall Street Journal ran a story labeled "EMBARGOED!" in June, we held out hope the tag referred to the paper's in-house lingo for an exclusive to be kept off the Web until the last possible minute, not to the sort of embargoes where sources dictate when information may be published. But alas, it appears former managing editor Marcus Brauchli's noble defiance of public relations choreography is truly abandoned, as evidenced by the screenshot above and the factually identical stories in the Times and Journal this morning (about a Netflix-TiVo deal). Sometimes, even the Journal will submit to a flack's rules. And even add a slammer!