[lbo-talk] the Murdochization of the WSJ

[Eric]

I hadn't read the WSJ for a few months until beginning a few weeks 
ago. Right away I noticed the larger fonts and the little "takeaway" 
boxes -- ie, the ones with the three bullet points of what the 
article is allegedly able to be reduced to. Then I noticed that there 
seems to be a lot less of the amazing "cultural" articles -- the ones 
about obscure/fascinating/incredible people or movements that don't 
*seem* to be strictly relating to the economic. I really like those. 
It also seems that though the articles on finance and business were 
still good, there are fewer of them, though I have no way to quantify 
that.


>[via Mike Allen's Politico Playbook - this is not good news - I'm 
>running an interview on Thursday's show with Tony Hendra, editor of a 
>WSJ parody, the premise of which is the Murdochization of the paper -
timely, by coincidence]