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more about #wallstreetjournal more comments → Alaska Miller: It's like telling a city bus to stop only at Burger King instead of McDonald's and expecting everyone to pay extra for free ice cream. more » Monty: What is more interesting than search engines paying for content is that this could ultimately save the news media business. Ignoring the concern to J... more » Magister: What happens when you look for a foreign or local story? I assume the Fox O&Os will be part of the equation, as will their Australian and UK paper... more » sweetpickles: Yes. You'll find the same news at other sites by searching through Google. This isn't only about Murdoch walling off his sites, though. This is about ... more » Hello Mister Walrus: I think this is really audience-specific. I work for a bank, so if I had to choose between Google + no WSJ and some other search engine that is 97% as... more » Gabriel Snyder: And notice in that first search that while News Corp. is saying it can live without Google, it's also buying up ad keywords like "lieberman public opt... more » manchops: but have you tried googling: "Andrea Peyser + sex goddess?" I mean, hello? more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Perfect. And if they take even one step in the direction of "You can't quote our stories" they will drive themselves so far into irrelevancy ... more » Heneage: Servicy. more » kappakappaspankme: I hate to be a wet blanket but this is actually a very serious issue in health care. A dangling neck tie breaks the sterile field and is quite the si... more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Here's something scary... the 14 yr. old girl in this video was immunized with the live attenuated inhalant, but she was struck with the little alien ... more » RollsRoyceRevenge: Rupe's probably just confused because he doesn't understand why the governor hasn't washed off the blackface yet. #rupertmurdoch more » Penscribe: You call the governor Davis Paterson in his second reference, eh. That is throwing me off. Back to reading.... #rupertmurdoch more » Mediahohoho: Or did you just run across one you couldn't buy? #rupertmurdoch more » Mediahohoho: Right, Rupe. Because if the New York State government -- or the feds for that matter -- were the least bit competent, you and your grifting, prison co... more » -
#media
A Glimpse of Google without News Corp.: No Big Loss
The media world is in a (relative) uproar over what the implications of News Corp. pulling its content off Google would be. But! A three-part Gawker investigation-type thing indicates the impact might be quite minimal for you, the consumer. Observe:
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#writerscompanion
The Swine Flu-Necktie Epidemic: How to Write a Cautionary Medical Article
Everyone's talking about swine flu, which means medical journalists are in high demand. But how do you come up with new angles on something so overplayed and relatively straightforward? More » -
#insults
Rupert Murdoch: David Paterson Is a Hapless Blind Illiterate
At the Wall Street Journal CEO Council yesterday, someone asked Rupert Murdoch why our political discourse is so angry and infantile. Murdoch's answer was, "Because David Paterson is blind and can't read braille." (The correct answer is "Rupert Murdoch.") More » -
#newspaperwars
Wall Street Journal Takes on Local News
The Wall Street Journal is planning to hire a dozen new staffers to cover local news in NYC, Media Decoder reports. Let us point out every last implication to this news! More » -
#politics
Paper: Obama Secretly Accomplishing Things
Did you know that while you have been bitching about stuff and giggling at that one lazy SNL sketch that Barack Obama has kinda quietly accomplished many good liberal things? The Wall Street Journal noticed! More » -
#exodus
Cleaner, Better NYC Only Fit for Tourists
Lisa van Dusen has been coming to New York City for a great many years and she did not care for its baseball bat-wielding desk clerks, cerulean shag carpeting and gag-inducing transport. More » -
#voodooeconomics
"Learn To Love Insider Trading," by The Wall Street Journal
Does the recent collar of terrorist-supporting hedge fund chief Raj Rajaratnam suggest insider trading as back en vogue? The moving of markets with propriety information nobody else gets hasn't been cool since Wall Street...until now. Love it, says the WSJ.
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#mediawars
Marissa Mayer, Temptress of Google
It was a shocking clash of old and new media culture at a San Francisco Web summit, and Business Insider captured it on video: The editor of the Wall Street Journal calling a Google executive a media pimp. More » -
#rumormonger
Is the Wall Street Journal Bleeding Cash?
The Wall Street Journal uses an astounding 30 to 60 staffers to produce an underwhelming webcast knockoff of CNBC, says Business Insider. (Update: WSJ says closer to 10.) That would help explain the rumors that the newspaper is hemorrhaging money. More » -
#crazy
Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.â€
Three-steps-from-crazy-cat-lady WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan is teaching at Harvard. Our spies report: "Peggy's a ridiculous, hilarious person to speaking with any authority on anything at all." They've provided us with her awesome quotes. We're presenting them emoticon-contextualized them for you.
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#microtrends
Mark Penn Eats His Own Mom
PR-man-masquerading-as-newspaper-columnist Mark Penn invented the term "Soccer Mom," which, of course, is the queen of all Microtrends. But now he's declaring the whole Soccer Mom thing dunzo! What catchphrase will you hang your hat on now, Señor Penn? More » -
#microtrends
Mark Penn has not published a self-serving WSJ column since 9/16. We miss you, Mark!
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#heh
[Had to Discard Every Headline]
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#crazy
Harvard Students: Stop Whatever You're Doing and Register for Peggy Noonan's Class, NOW
You do not want to miss the weekly festival of swooning self-regard and misty incoherence that will be Peggy Noonan's "Study Group" for undergrads this year, during her fellowship at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Let's read the syllabus. More » -
#journalismism
Story Magically Re-Appears Three Weeks Later in Competing Outlet
Forbes, September 2: "Scott Gould happily ditched the securities market for a restaurant job." WSJ, yesterday: "Scott Gould went from trader to waiter-by choice." It's almost as if one followed the other for some easily determined reason. We'll never know. -
#trends
Everyone In America Flying to Argentina To Sleep With Mistresses
The Wall Street Journal's award-worthy "this is what former rich people are up to" coverage continues today with a story on how so many Americans are dropping everything to "hike the Appalachian Trail." More » -
#sportswatch
Cheerleading: Dumb or Too Dumb?
Remember how after Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal, he decided the paper should be covering sports more? That was awesome. Today: Is cheerleading stupid, or what? More » -
#flackery
Mark Penn's Column Now 100% About Mark Penn's Business
Trendy flack Mark Penn promised the WSJ that his evil PR firm would stop using his newspaper column as a tool to troll for PR clients. Instead, he's just writing columns off of surveys by his own polling firm! More » -
#smallfries
Fashion's Littlest Muse May Be the Reincarnation of Diana Vreeland
Today, the Wall Street Journal included eighth-grade fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson in itsprofile of blogger fashion muses. What it doesn't tell you is that Gevinson was previously outed by the media and that her blog has, like, a name. More »
