[lbo-talk] WSJ reporters don't drink!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 19 08:53:25 PST 2004


<http://www.gawker.com/news/media/index.php#why-the-wsj-is-boring-sober-reporters-026027>

Why The 'WSJ' Is Boring: Sober Reporters #

This might be the most important thing we ever address here at Gawker, so let us get to the point: in an industry that thrives on the belligerence of its best writers, it's come to our attention that reporters at the venerable Wall Street Journal are-get this-not drinking. Says WSJ writer Ken Wells:

"There are 300 or 400 people in the Wall Street Journal's offices, and there are seven or eight who drink beer. And I'm one of them." (It's remarkable that in an industry in which afterwork drinks were once as ubiquitous as the pencil and pad, habitual tipplers now constitute just two percent of the staff at one of the nation's premier broadsheets. But we'll leave for another story.) "There's a dearth of beer-drinking journalists these days," notes Wells. "It's something that I think is missing."

If nothing else, Gawker is 100% there for our elders in moments of crisis. Time for an intervention: our interns are building a 4-story beer bong right now and messengering it over before noon.



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