Peggy Noonan

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan has a problem. She calls it her Adam Lambert problem, and it might best be described as the crippling fear that America's moral character will devolve so rapidly in the coming years, that children as young as four will be forced to wear black leather pants to school, and watch their teachers engage in simulated oral sex while the words "under God" are stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance and...  

As if enough stupid things haven't already been said about the Adam Lambert American Music Award fiasco, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan has waded into the fray offering up some either...  

News Corp. is making subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post available via Sony's e-reader. Subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal will cost $14.99 per month, while subscriptions to the Post will be $9.99 per month, writes MediaPost.  

The Wall Street Journal has partnered with MySpace to offer an American MySpace user what is described as the "assignment of a lifetime:" an all expenses paid trip to Davos, Switzerland to report at the 40th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2010. The MySpace Journal prize includes invitations to the Young Global Leaders opening conference and various media events and attendance at private meetings with editors from the WSJ and News Corp...  

In the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan contemplates the “decline in American optimism,” as evidenced by polls saying that 55% of Americans believe the country to be on the “wrong track,” and 66% don’t think life will be better for their children than it has been for them. Now, Noonan is not one to go [...]365daynews.Com (subscribe) : The Adam Lambert Problem ...The Garlic (subscribe) : For A Minute, I Thought Peggy Noonan Was Coming Out...  

New Course for Space Exploration Promotes Private Firms, WS Journal "The Obama administration appears set to chart a new course for U.S. space exploration by promoting the use of private companies to ferry astronauts into orbit, according to people familiar...  

Mortgage servicers and foreclosure attorneys are putting off evections and scheduled notices until after the holidaysContributor: Rose A. ValentaPublished: Dec 20, 2009  

Korban redo his apartment twice and oversee the design of his New York showroom. "He takes someone's personal style and translates that into ... Korban's new Web site at a Tribeca lounge. There, very tall, thin women balanced champagne flutes as they ...  

I’m guessing from the blithe and condescending tone of James Taranto’s piece in the Wall Street Journal that he is supposed to be in the class of “pundit”. Usually, it helps if a pundit can actually read for comprehension before launching into a screed. Here’s the section of interest: True Believers? Our lead item yesterday [...]  

I’ve jotted down some highlights from this expansive, important discussion via Morning Joe that gives you an over-arching feel for what Obama’s real problems are, particularly Peggy Noonan’s brilliant differentiation between the spirit of 2008 and the hard realities of 2009, which you’ll hear towards the beginning of the video. Later in the discussion, Peggy [...]  

Death, it has been omnipresent this annum. Most humans have expired. This datum is known by Mme. Peggington Noonington, a prosemonger famous to children, and regal oligarch wordsmith for the Wall Street Journal banking pamphlet. Peggington did not faceth the Grim Reaper this year. For someone who was born in 1820’s London, in the actual [...] United States - Wall Street Journal - Google - New York City - New York  

Sony's new e-reader to offer subscriptions to Wall Street Journal and New York Post Emma Heald on December 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post will be available on the new Sony e-reader , reported Editor & Publisher and the Wall Street Journal.  

Weekend at Bernie'sWall Street Journal18 "New Year Is Time for Making Quality Decisions"--headline, Emory University press release, Dec. 17 "The How and Why of Freezing the Common Fruit ...and more »  

Rafe Needleman pays $100 a year for his online subscription to the Wall Street Journal. As he writes for CNET, he recently discovered just how far his money doesn't go: I recently downloaded the iPhone app for the WSJ, and discovered that getting access to the stories that I'm paying for already on the Web was going to cost me another $52 a year. And that's the discounted rate for existing subscribers. iPhone and BlackBerry app access is $78 a...  

Japan's Sony Corp., seeking to gain ground on Amazon's popular Kindle, said Thursday that it will begin offering The Wall Street Journal and New York Post on its Daily Edition electronic reader.Sony s...  

If you’ve been following our blog, you’ll know that Sony has announced the Reader Daily Edition way back in August; though at the time there wasn’t any confirmation as to which newspapers would be offered for the reader. With the reader going on sale before 2010, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Post have been confirmed to be offered on the reader. The WSJ will be available in daily summary ($5) and digital copy ($14.99/month...  

The problem is not that Americans are disheartened over inability to solve our problems.  Here is what Noonan is missing I started reading Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal some time ago. Unfortunately, all too frequently I found her disappointing. Yes, she was a speechwriter for President Reagan, but since then she [...]  

From Politico: One Journal staffer described Baker’s first impression in the newsroom—by way of YouTube—as “totally obnoxious, puerile, anti-intellectual, useless drivel.” A journalist who’s known Baker for years said he was “quite taken aback” by the Hannity clip, and while acknowledging that Baker leans right, argued that “he’s not as hard-line as he’s being portrayed.” But Baker [...]  

MySpace today announced its second annual ?MySpace Citizen Journalist? program in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum, giving one MySpace user the opportunity to become a special correspondent at the world?s most prestigious conference, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.  

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MySpace today announced its second annual “MySpace Citizen Journalist” program in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum, giving one MySpace user the opportunity to become a ...  

An array of RINOS and CINOS (or CRINOS for short) are suddenly all agog about Barack Obama’s chimerical shift to the “center”. Obama tosses out a few entirely mendacious lines about America being a good country; or helping small businesses, and those who should know better are clapping like trained seals. Former Reagan speech writerand WSJ columnist, Peggy Noonan is not the only RINO giddy about Obama’s imaginary centrism; immediately after...  

Once again, MySpace is partnering with The Wall Street Journal, which are both owned by News Corp, to send one MySpace user to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January. Dubbed the “MySpace Citizen Journalist, ...  

Washington PostMessage From IranWall Street JournalStirring up trouble with a neighbor is an old political standby for embattled regimes. But the Iranian forces that apparently surrounded an Iraqi oil well Friday also might serve an economic objective. Reva Bhalla, director of analysis ...Oil Pares Gains as Dollar Rises to 3-Month High Against EuroBloombergOil jumps after Iranians seize Iraqi oil fieldThe Associated PressIraq demands...  

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MySpace today announced its second annual “MySpace Citizen Journalist” program in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum, giving one MySpace user the opportunity to become a special correspondent at the world’s most prestigious conference, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. The “MySpace Citizen Journalist” winner, chosen by a panel of experts...  

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Corp said it struck a deal with News Corp that will make The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, and the New York Post available on its electronic reader, the latest shot fired in an intensifying battle with Amazon.com Inc's popular Kindle device.  

The Year in MusicWall Street JournalNirvana's 1992 concert at the Reading Festival in the UK has been around as a bootleg, so its official release as "Live at Reading" (Geffen) might qualify ...Plenty of Cause for OptimismWall Street Journalall 2 news articles »  

This is worth looking at. It is Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal arguing that supporters of the President can no longer argue that he inherited the mess (the wars, the economic collapse) because he's been President for 9... Sponsored Topics: Peggy Noonan - Wall Street Journal - United States - George W. Bush - Obama  

Once again, MySpace is partnering with The Wall Street Journal, which are both owned by News Corp, to send one MySpace user to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January. Dubbed the “MySpace Citizen Journalist," the contest will let one lucky winner, who is chosen by a panel of correspondents, join the Davos press corps. The winner will have to use the MySpace platform to report on conference news. And MySpace will expand...  

The Year in TheaterWall Street Journal... Ill., where Writers' Theatre put on "A Minister's Wife," an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" that improved on the original. ...and more »  

FICTION 1. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 2. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days" by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books) 3. "U is for Underflow" by Sue Grafton (Putnam Adult) 4. "I, Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown  

NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post are offering exclusive subscription deals through the latest electronic reader from Sony Corp. Sony's new Reader Daily Edition, which sells for about $400, will be the only e-reader that ...  

When Sony announced the Reader Daily Edition back in August, they hadn't confirmed which newspapers would be offered alongside the ebooks. It's just News Corp titles for now, with The Wall Street Journal and New York Post being confirmed. A daily news summary will be on offer for WSJ readers, in addition to the digital version of the paper. The digital copy of the paper will sell punters back $14.99 a month, with the daily summary another $5...  

Merry MarketingWall Street JournalOf course I know that this is the way marketing works. Retailers use anything to hawk a product. And I'm sorry to be a stickler, but it's strange seeing the ...and more »  

When chocolate first arrived in France around 1615, the "food of the gods" from Amazonian rain forests was declared by royal decree to be too good for plebeians and strictly for aristocrats only. Today, the fruits of the cacao tree are available ...  

It's for representation in Hollywood. The Wall Street Journal is leaving behind its longtime reps at CAA. I'm told UTA will sell film and television rights to published articles across all sections of the Wall Street Journal, which recently regained its position as the largest circulation U.S. newspaper under new owner Rupert Murdoch. But, wait, doesn't he own a film studio and a TV network and cable stations? And aren't his Big Media...  

NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post are offering exclusive subscription deals through the latest electronic reader from Sony Corp. Sony's new Reader Daily Edition, which sells f...  

Washington PostFixing the BanksWall Street JournalTreasury officials were unsure whether there would be investor appetite for their shares, but eventually agreed to sell about $2 billion of stock. ...Citi's auction price: $3.35 per shareNew York PostCitigroup's Stock Snafu Caps Off Embarrassing WeekThe AtlanticWire (blog)Tepid investor interest changes Treasury's mind about selling 34 per cent Citi ...The Canadian PressBusinessWeek -Newserall...  

Poor Peggy Noonan, Stuck Recycling Right-Bloggers' Talking-PointsAlterNetPeggy Noonan, newly filled with a sense of purpose, tells us that people don't like Obama anymore. That is, the polls indicate a lot of them do, ...and more »  

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace, The Wall Street Journal, and the World Economic Forum today said that the firms are in a contest to send a "citizen journalist" to the Davos World Economic Forum. According to the firms, the "citizen journalist" will join the Davos press corp, and report on conference news and interview world leaders for MySpace and The Wall Street Journal. Winner of the contest will be selected from users who...  

The Wall Street Journal has announced a replacement for Nik Deogun, who left the paper recently to take a post as managing editor at CNBC.  His replacement is Rebecca Blumstein, who will now enter the elusive Wall Street Journal troika as international editor of the WSJ and deputy managing editor.  In a memo regarding the promotion, managing editor of the WSJ, Robert Thomson, gleefully stated, "Rebecca has done outstanding work at WSJ.com...  

It used to be that New York City was a big enough town to accommodate the massive institutional egos of both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. But ever since the Times published an article on Sunday suggesting that the Journal's news coverage has been tilting to the right since it [...]  

From journalist Elizabeth Drew, a veteran and often sympathetic chronicler of Democratic figures, a fiery denunciation of—and warning for—the White House. In a piece in Politico on the firing of White House counsel Greg Craig, Ms. Drew reports that while the president was in Asia last week, "a critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man." They once held "an...  

File this in the stuff I just couldn’t get to but thought was interesting for readers: Vizio views listing in 5 years (Wall Street Journal) Comcast puts cable TV on Internet for subscribers (USA Today) Verizon: We’re testing 10 Gbps and you aren’t (BroadbandReports.com) AT&T Wireless CEO: U-Verse Taking 60% Share In New Markets(Wall Street Journal) Washington State suing DirecTV [...]  

He Can’t Take Another Bow An icon of a White House that is coming to seem amateurish. This week, two points in an emerging pointillist picture of a White House leaking support—not the support of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]  

The video sent by Predator drones is sent unencrypted. This super-secret data is being broadcast over the air, where anybody with an antenna and a bit of software can watch it. Including insurgents. Who are doing so. What no-talent assclown followed the instructions for My First Software Project, skipped the "Encrypt Your Data" chapter, and called it a Predator drone?  

Paul Kukla of Kukla's Korner posted an article from the Wall Street Journal's David Binderman which either proves that teams that spend to at or near to the NHL's "upper limit" of payroll expenditures, a.k.a. the salary cap, almost certainly...  

Ketaki Gokhale, who won a Daniel Pearl Memorial Journalism Internship to work at the Wall Street Journal this year, and who ignited some controversy this summer with a story asserting widespread microcredit overlending in India, has continued to cover microfinance in India. (For more on Pearls, see yesterday’s post.) A new article continues on same [...]  

Sign #639 the GOP is in trouble: When a titian-haired, conservative "culture critic" reflexively winces right after she finishes a forceful endorsement of Sarah Palin for President. Oh, wait.  

DOWNLOADS: (5) PLAYS: (12) Peggy Noonan thinks she knows what's good for Democrats and that this Stupak-Pitts abortion amendment is somehow good for...  

This week, two points in an emerging pointillist picture of a White House leaking support—not the support of voters, though polls there show steady decline, but in two core constituencies, Washington's Democratic-journalistic establishment, and what might still be called the foreign-policy establishment. From journalist Elizabeth Drew, a veteran and often sympathetic chronicler of Democratic figures, a fiery denunciation of—and warning for—the...  

The Wall Street Journal is no longer an exemplary business broadsheet, charges David Carr in the New York Times. In his column today, David calls the Journal an ordinary paper with a conservative slant. Read the rest of this story »See Also:Google To Summarize, Host New York Times And Washington Post Content (GOOG)Rupert Murdoch Spending $15 Million On A New York Edition Of The Wall Street Journal (NYT, NWS)Wall Street Journal Closes Boston...  

TECH JOURNALWall Street JournalMr. Lurie is in charge of a bet AT&T Inc. is making that wireless services for new gadgets could substantially increase its $124 billion-a-year business. ...and more »  

In response to yesterday's column by David Carr that accused the Wall Street Journal of post-Murdoch news filtering towards the conservative, WSJ editor-in-chief Robert Thomson replied that the New York Times is jealous of the Journal's success. Mr. Thomson retorted "The New York Times is uncomfortable about the rise of an increasingly successful rival while its own circulation and credibility are in retreat."  The Times article described...  

work & FamilyWall Street JournalSeveral steps can help you vet work-at-home come-ons. First, do an Internet search by typing the company name, a plus sign and the word "scam" into the ...and more »  

Seeing Bias in NewspapersNew York TimesI was amused by David Carr's column about what he says is a rightward tilt in some news articles and headlines in The Wall Street Journal since the paper ...WSJ's Baker: 'I understand the difference between reporting and opinion'Politico (blog)Murdoch Marches the Wall Street Journal to the RightCenter for Media and Democracy (blog)all 16 news articles »  

The Wall Street Journal continues its coverage of the hacked drones scandal: Senior U.S. military officers working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussed the danger of Russia and China intercepting and doctoring video from drone aircraft in 2004, but the Pentagon didn't begin securing the signals until this year, according to people familiar with the matter. The disclosure came after The Wall Street Journal reported insurgents in Iraq...  

Sunday was the second anniversary of Murdoch's purchase of The Wall Street Journal, an event that many press and journalism experts decried as sullying the hallowed status of the respected paper. But two years later the WSJ is still going strong...  

DOWNLOADS: (7) PLAYS: (28) What are Peggy Noonan and Walter Isaacson smoking?—and Fareed Zakaria for that matter. During this 'very serious' debate...  

The Wall Street Journal reports this morning: The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News brings bad news for Democrats when it comes to passing a health care bill. For the first time in our polling, more Americans said they’d rather stick...  

Barack Obama's decision to think really hard about what to do in Afghanistan has been praised by most people who aren't Dick Cheney. Peggy Noonan tackles it in today's column, and by "it" we mean JFK and 50-year-old TV shows. Noonan thinks it is good that Obama is thinking! Noonan thinks it is bad that Obama is not asking the people who've been wrong about everything for years what they would do. The president is not, apparently, holding...  

It's not just Fox News anymore. News Corporation, controlled by the Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has placed a conservative editor in a key post within The Wall Street Journal, the business newspaper it bought in 2007. The editor, Gerard Baker, is credited with infecting the once staid and Pulitzer-prize winning paper's Washington coverage with conservative [...]  

"Rebecca has done outstanding work at WSJ.com this year and her role overseeing our correspondents will allow her to continue the important phase of integration she has begun at dotcom," a memo from Managing Editor Robert Thomson stated.  

The Wall Street Journal's glossy magazine, WSJ., is increasing its frequency and circulation starting in March. The magazine will boost its U.S. circulation to about 1.5 million from 800,000 and publish six times a year, up from four. The magazine will... Wall Street Journal - United States - Magazine - Asia - India  

ReutersBanker Baiting 101Wall Street Journal... beating up capitalists, and you aren't likely to encourage more lending by whipsawing lenders. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. ...Obama and the fat cat bankersExaminer.comObama Presses Biggest Banks to Lend MoreNew York Times (blog)Obama Slams 'Fat Cat' Bankers. Who Pulled a No-Show?DiversityInc.com (subscription)Bloomberg -Financial Express Bangladesh -Seeking Alpha...  

Tensions between The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are on the rise as the two papers increasingly compete for the same pool of general-interest and local-market readers. A column by Times media critic David Carr accusing ...  

We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists—they're unimaginative. They don't have faith, they've just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don't mind it when people become disheartened. They don't even notice.  

Baghdad Hails Oil Auction as Success Wall Street Journal BAGHDAD—Iraq awarded some of its most promising fields to a variety of foreign bidders in an auction Friday and Saturday … Iraq Auctions Development Rights to Oil FieldsNew York ...  

Peggy Noonan gets most things right, with verve and wit, and even when she’s wrong her writing is often impressive enough to pull along even disagreeing readers. She usually hits the slow pitches of idiocy and offensiveness thrown by our...  

As I have said for months, what Obama did was a gigantic bait and switch, pushing further government intervention in health care as a way to "bend the curve" on health care spending, but really using it to move us closer to more ...  

In the summer of 1985, excavations could be seen all over Manhattan; whole neighborhoods had been pulled up by the roots. In their place were holes—the first symptoms of the High-Riser Plague. Lamentations could be heard throughout the land, but ...  

Meanwhile, in a nod to the BRIC countries that helped define the last decade, consultants PFC Energy has coined its own acronym for the next: BRINK, or Brazil, Russia, Iraq, Nigeria and Kazakhstan. Brazil has hosted a string of big discoveries, while ...  

There are, let's agree, a lot of things that keep our attention on Sarah Palin. One of them is the way she's constantly refusing to participate in the relatively innocuous rituals of being a big-league politician. If someone asks a conservative politician what she reads regularly, for example, the appropriate response isn't to go blank and then spend a year being defensive about it. Just say "the Wall Street Journal" and be done with it. But...  

"The world is too small to live in a bubble." So Rexxy, does this mean you now watch Fox News? WSJ is one of the very few conservative newspapers available to us. It is required reading for anyone searching for balance from the far left "news" and opinion offered by the NYT and WP. The suggestion that reading WSJ puts Barbara in a bubble is stupid and offensive, but considering the source, hardly surprising.  

One only has so much newspaper-reading time in a day, so in order to maximize my intellectual edification in a predictable and efficient way, the only American newspaper content I single out for routine consumption is the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal. There I normally find the calibre of writing, the clarity of reasoning and the political and cultural perspectives I admire most. So it was an unusually rude disappointment to come...  

GRAND BLANC, Michigan — T.J. Wisner, of Grand Blanc, has a different way of celebrating Christmas, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to the article, Wisner has started a tradition by stacking empty beer bottles on upturned metal buckets and decorating...  

The president is not, apparently, holding serious discussions with the most informed and concerned Republicans from Capitol Hill and what used to be called the foreign-policy establishment, and this, if true, is bad. The cliché that politics stops at the water's edge is a fiction worth preserving. It's a story that ought to be true and sometimes is true. There seems to be something in this president that resists really including the opposition...  

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"Citadel Broadcasting Corp., the nation's third-biggest radio company...is preparing to file a prearranged bankruptcy before the end of the year, according to the Wall Street Journal and later the New York Times," according to chicagotribune.com. Citadel Broadcasting is the third-largest radio broadcaster in the United States, according to The Wall Street Journal. "Citadel's long-expected move is yet another reminder of the travails facing...  

DENVER -- To retake Colorado, the Republican Party wants voters like Michael Schneider. A proud member of the diffuse 'tea-party movement' that gained steam during this summer's town-hall meetings on health care, Dr. Schneider is on the hunt for candidates who promise to buck the political establishment, defy the party elite and hew tightly to conservative principles. More on Wall Street Journal  

1. "Going Rogue: An American Life" by Sarah Palin (HarperCollins)2. "Have a Little Faith: A True Story" by Mitch Albom (Hyperion)3. "Open: An Autobiography" by Andre Agassi (Knopf)4. "Guinness World Records 2010" by Guinness World Records (Guinness)5. "Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government" by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe (Threshold Editions)-more-  

No Free GiftsWall Street JournalJosef Ackermann , CEO of Deutsche Bank, knows gifts don't come free. At a dinner in Berlin on Friday, during a conference convened by Columbia University's ...and more »  

I love this Wall Street Journal story this morning on how CEOs, despite their rich paydays, often get automatic gains on their retirement plans, while their proles face the whims of the markets. This is really solid reporting. You always like to see "according to a Wall Street Journal analysis" rather than "according to some study somebody flacked out."...  

Beginning in March, The Wall Street Journal's quarterly glossy magazine WSJ. will raise its circulation to 1.6 million from 800,000 and increase its publishing schedule to six issues a year. In addition to being available to all subscribers to the Journal in the U.S., WSJ. will be sold on newsstands. More on Wall Street Journal  

Or at least it may not be for much longer. The Anchoress takes the weak-kneed Peggy Noonan and shows her how it’s done. Considering Noonan was so quick to hike up her skirt and hop aboard the empty-rhetoric-fueled Obamessiah train last fall, it’s hard to take her seriously about anything these days, but at least [...]  

By Solana Larsen The Canadian government supposedly released an angry statement today, denouncing a spoof that supposedly made it as far as the Wall Street Journal claiming that Canada had shifted its policy and would be agreeing to greenhouse gas reduction targets and drafting a plan for a climate adaptation fund for developing nations. In fact, it looks like all of it is phishy, including the Wall Street Journal article (note, the URL is...  

In the immediate term, we should move slowly. In an unstable time, in an unstable environment, with many movable pieces and uncertain dynamics, the best thing to do, often, is nothing dramatic. When all is excitable, move deliberately, thoughtfully. Listen, weigh and consider, with the emphasis on listen.  

Or at least it may not be for much longer. The Anchoress takes the weak-kneed Peggy Noonan and shows her how it’s done. Considering Noonan was so quick to hike up her skirt and hop aboard the empty-rhetoric-fueled Obamessiah train last fall, it’s hard to take her seriously about anything these days, but at least she inspired this brilliant post. The ending, of course, is the coup d’état. Believing that the rest of us, now disillusioned, are no...  

Health CostsWall Street JournalI wrote in this column recently about a proposal in the House of Representatives to extend the 65% subsidy for Cobra health coverage for ...Coverage hard to find after COBRAColumbia Daily TribuneHR 3920 Cobra Subsidy Another letter begging for action from Joe Sestak!Gather.comCOBRA coverage about to end for Pa. familiesChambersburg Public Opinionall 8 news articles »  

I’ve mentioned transaction taxes briefly in a previous post and it incited a lot more comment than I’d anticipated. This morning there’s an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on transaction taxes and, as might have been expected, the authors are against them: A tax on financial transactions would have to be imposed internationally to [...]  

  Great little blurb about more proof for John Gabriel’s “Greater Internet Fuckwad” Theory.   From the article: http://valleywag.gawker.com/5416250/how-to-exact-online-revenge-as-taught-by-the-wall-street-journal?skyline=true&s=i === The internet is turning us all into nasty, vengeful monsters, according to a Wall Street Journal columnist's trend piece . And you can become one of those monsters, by using the eye-opening tactics outlined in the...  

The White House has gotten bad at listening, and now it’s paying the price. Article can be found at WSJ.com. Posted in NObama Tagged: Hubris  

Must Be Something in the Air on Sixth AvenueMore than one person was grasping for the same , ethereal analogy in the Wall Street Journal yesterday.On Page B5 in a story about The Limited's success with its Bath & Body Works division, Limited big cheese Leslie Wexner is quoted as saying the results are not "just fairy dust."Then on Page B6, a story about Peter Ligouri being hired by Discovery Communications to be its COO quotes him as saying...  

Duk over at Big League Stew has a post that points elsewhere on the eating scale after the news about The Beast.That post over at BLS has a link to a Wall Street Journal article that covers healthy eating in baseball in about the way that you would expect the Wall Street Journal to cover healthy eating in baseball:Baseball's War Against HamburgersAs Players Get Health Conscious, Teams Banish Clubhouse Junk Food; Edamame Anyone?The doughnuts...  

CBC.caWhen Gossip Is GoodWall Street JournalWhich brings us to Tiger, and his celebrity. It is his wealth and fame and achievement that feed an especially nasty motive in gossip, moral rationalization ...Crouching Tiger had no chanceIndependent OnlineQuit Gorging On GossipForbesYahoo CEO Praises Tiger Woods InfidelitySingle Parent Gossip (blog)Northwest Missourian -Scripps News -NPRall 24 news articles »  

Romanians elected incumbent president Basescu for a new mandate as President even though the results were close. His left countercandidate, Mircea Geoana yells fraud and the results of the elections might be examined by the Constitutional Court, the American daily the Wall Street Journal reads in an analysis on Romania after Presidential elections. The paper reads that economic liberalism gained over the Communist legacy.  

The internet is turning us all into nasty, vengeful monsters, according to a Wall Street Journal columnist's trend piece. And you can become one of those monsters, by using the eye-opening tactics outlined in the article. Service-y! Columnist Elizabeth Bernstein says technology is to blame for an alarming surge in sweet, refreshing revenge, since the internet makes vengeance way too easy. That it does, in part because it contains Elizabeth...  

The internet is turning us all into nasty, vengeful monsters, according to a Wall Street Journal columnist’s trend piece. And you can become one of those monsters, by using the eye-opening tactics outlined in the article. Service-y! (more…)  

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The Wall Street Journal examines "big pharma's growing interest in a corner of healthcare - emerging-market inoculations," in light of a recent move by Novartis to purchase an 85 percent stake in the Chinese vaccine maker Zhejiang Tianyuan Bio-Pharmaceutical Co.  

NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal says its new San Francisco Bay Area edition will launch Thursday, with a weekly section devoted to local news. It joins The New York Times in moving into big media markets that have seen local newspapers struggle amid an advertising and economic slump. The foray is designed to lure local advertisers and boost circulation. They see San Francisco as a good place to start because it has a high number of...  

NEW YORK (AP) — The Wall Street Journal says its new San Francisco Bay Area edition will launch Thursday, with a weekly section devoted to local news. It joins The New York Times in moving into big media markets that have seen local newspapers struggle amid an advertising and economic slump. The foray is designed to lure local advertisers and boost circulation. San Francisco has a high number of educated, affluent...  

The Wall Street Journal‘s Bay Area Edition debuted today. Not in the neighborhood? We asked the Journal for images of the pages, embedded below, so you can take a look. If you’re in the Bay Area, have you checked out the New York Times Bay Area Report, published on Fridays and Sundays since Oct .16,  or today’s Journal? Add any value for you? Are you getting the papers now because they have SF coverage? Are you checking out the WSJ.com/SF...  

Because no one will pay money for a "newspaper" any more, newspaper companies are selling other crap, out of desperation. They all sell wine, for example. Now there is a new "Wall Street Journal Store." Let's peruse its fine offerings. The subject line of the WSJ email promoting this new store was "Introducing WSJstore. Not just smart. Street smart." Leading well-known wag Ryan Tate to observe, "Doesn't that WSJ biker jersey just scream...  

Good news: Someone is actually hiring, and (surprise!) it's a member of the flailing business press. Just a few days after announcing the closure of its Boston bureau, The Wall Street Journal is looking to hire about a dozen local reporters to cover city beats like the courthouses and city hall, The New York Times revealed today. All of this seems to be part of Rupert Murdoch's grand scheme to make the Journal more of a general interest...  

Early Friday morning the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece from Eric Schmidt on how Google can help the dying newspaper industry. Later that same afternoon Google announced they were “turning on” personalized search for everyone. While these two events were connected because the occurred on the same date, they are also a clear signal of [...]This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss...  

News Corp.‘s Wall Street Journal is further setting its European edition apart from its US counterpart by adding features to the London-based print edition and website. At the same time, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) will stop printing and selling the US edition in Europe, and will instead encourage readers to buy the Euro edition. All print and online subscribers will be offered a transfer to the European paper and website. From November 17, the...  

The Wall Street Journal has always been ahead of the curve when it comes putting their chronicles online...and making a buck off of it. Dow Jones was one of the first publishers to enact a pay wall for their Web site, alleviating the burden of online ad revenue by making their users pay for the content. It's a very Rupert Murdoch concept (he who grew up learning paper trade from single-stand sales), while at the same completely antithetical to...  

In an editorial this morning, The Wall Street Journal calls out Sudan activists in the U.S. for not criticizing the Obama administration's new policy on Sudan, announced last week, which includes new "incentives and disincentives"--which happen to be classified--for the Khartoum government:The larger wonder is how all of this can go down so smoothly with those in the human-rights community who have championed Darfur and assailed the Bush...  

Jeffrey Zaslow, columnist for The Wall Street Journal and co-author of the international bestseller “The Last Lecture,” will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Indiana State University’s Tilson Auditorium as part of the University Speakers Series. A book signing and reception in Heritage Lounge is planned immediately following his talk. Both the presentation and reception are free.  

Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703558004574583962940536556.html A Wall Street Journal editorial notes that the new cost-control “apologists” admit that President Obama’s health care plan may lead to poorer quality of care and higher costs. White House budget director Peter Orzag admits "we don't...  

In an Oct. 20 column ("Sun Rises in East, Sets in West"), I asked why the press was treating as news the public's support for a "public option" government health program when tracking polls showed that support to be nothing new. I came up with three reasons describing subtle biases within Washington journalism. I now realize I should have included a fourth, less subtle consideration: Some of the public option's opponents are telling lies.[more...  

Andrew Samwick is shrill: >A Question for Peggy Noonan: When Did Our Callous Childhood Begin: A friend pointed me to this column by Peggy Noonan in last week's WSJ, "We're Governed by Callous Children." I think she is right in her main point about a disheartened leadership class in business and a mindless leadership class in government. >But she makes the same mistake that other Republican commentators make when they criticize our current...  

Charles Passy reviewed iResQ's MacBook repair service in the December 3rd edition of the Wall Street Journal online. In his Cranky Consumer column, he compared the iResQ experience to other repairs performed by Best Buy's Geek Squad, Staples, and Office Depot. Highlights of his verdict include, iResQ got the job done, and iResQ definitely knows its Macs. The article's title is "Can Big-Box Merchants Fix Your Computer?".......Continue...  

Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. Wall Street Journal Launches SF Edition Today (BayNewser) The Wall Street Journal's much anticipated Bay Area edition launches today, the newspaper said in an announcement. The newspaper will fold Bay Area-specific news into the A-section of the print edition every Thursday and has also created a Bay Area-specific section of its Web site. News Corp Says MySpace's $900...  

Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. Wall Street Journal Closes Boston Office (FishbowlNY) News Corp.-owned Wall Street Journal announced today that it is shuttering its Boston bureau, laying off nine staffers. The Dow Jones Newswires and MarketWatch offices there will remain open, and none of those employees will be affected, the company said. BusinessWeek: The Journal's newsroom has been abuzz for several...  

Spencer rips this propagandist a new ....... brain:U.S. Muslim leader explains how Fort Hood jihadist misunderstands Islam Here is that rare thing, an attempt to show with specific Qur'anic citations how an Islamic jihadist is misusing the Qur'an and misunderstanding the true, peaceful teachings of Islam. Usually those who assert such things are extremely vague about just how Islam and the Qur'an are being misused. Unfortunately, however, this...  

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125987130978175269.html   Highlights the expanding list Haitian NFL players and development of Haitian high school football players in the US.  Features some information on Indianapolis' Pierre Garçon and his Haitian background. .......................................................................................................  

Magical MarrakechWall Street JournalThe Samanah Country Club, designed by Jack Nicklaus, also just opened and will offer private villas starting at €2 million. Perhaps the most lavish new ...  

The internet is turning us all into nasty, vengeful monsters, according to a Wall Street Journal columnist's trend piece. Read the latest information about Bupers Online as this story develops.  

In the world as it is, climate alarmists see humanity hurtling toward certain doom. In the world as it might be, humanity has seen the light and changed its patterns of behavior, becoming the green equivalent of the Soviet “new man. ...  

I remember my first noticing current *Wall Street Journal* editorial page editor Paul Gigot back when I joined the Clinton Treasury. "But... he's lying!" I said. "Yes," said the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. "Deal with it." Sixteen years later, and Paul Gigot is still lying: >Problems with CBO Stimulus Report: [Jared] Bernstein claims vindication on the basis of a new Congressional Budget Office report that finds that 600,000 to 1.6...  

BenzingaApple (AAPL) Plans Widening Of itunes' Reach: Wall Street JournalBenzingaThe company which changed the dynamics of the music industry with its itunes service is planning to use the newly acquired La La Media Inc. to let users ...Media Digest 12/10/2009 Reuters, WSJ, nytimes, FT, Bloomberg24/7 Wall St. (blog)all 3 news articles »  

Wall Street Journal reporter Kate Kelly will discuss her new book Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street (Penguin Group, 2009), during a free lecture at the Rutgers School of Law–Camden at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2.  

http://coloradoindependent.com/43280/colo-gop-‘platform’-covered-by-wall-street-journal-panned-by-readers The conservative national paper of record, the Wall Street Journal, reported on the Colorado Republican Party “Platform for Prosperity” today, describing it as a “bold move” to win over the “restive tea party activists.” The tea partiers interviewed by the paper weren’t so impressed. Platforms mean little next to “gut feelings about...  

Industrial Bank ended 3.2% lower, with Industrial & Commercial Bank of China falling 1.5% and China Minsheng ... Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shrank 5.2%, Sompo Japan Insurance fell 0.5% and Komatsu fell 2.1%. Japanese and Chinese automobile stocks ...  

WFPLKentucky Votes NoWall Street JournalVoters in the 14th District elected Republican Jimmy Higdon over Democrat Jodie Haydon by 12 points. That's significant in a district that leans Democratic ...Republican Jimmy Higdon wins Senate seat representing MercerDanville Advocate14th Senate seat stays RepublicanKentucky.comBeshear says he'll keep pushing slotsLouisville Courier-JournalMcCreary County Record -Thoroughbred Times -WFPLall 105 news...  

Yupsters prefer Kingfish Cafe & Pub, a popular bar in Temescal, and the un-cola. (credit: Wikicommons) "Oakland's answer to San Francisco's Mission District," Temescal is, arguably, one of Oakland's finest neighborhoods. As Curbed noted earlier today, the WSJ review is downright intriguing, not to mention highly informative, when praising (or criticizing) the O-town hood as the latest home to yuppie/hipster hybrids. The North Oakland...  

RamSitaGods, Nina Paley | CC BY-SA Last week, The Wall Street Journal posted a fascinating article on the profits made by Nina Paley for her film Sita Sings The Blues. Widely available for free online under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, Sita has garnered $55,000 to date, an impressive amount for a film that has [...]  

It’s no secret that Apple’s iTunes software is widely considered to be a bloated beast written on top of ancient code. For all of its great features and continual updates, the Mac version of iTunes is often more sluggish and slow than its Windows counterpart. But that may soon be changing, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.MacRumors is reporting on The Wall Street Journal’s claims that Apple is looking into an “overhaul of...  

There seems to have been a big hoo-hah surrounding paid content on the web recently. The bottom line is that Rupert Murdoch doesn't like search engines offering 'paid content' for free. Google today seems to have given in, a little, and will now allow newspapers to limit the number of...  

Everyone knows that when you want to read something from behind The Wall Street Journal's pay wall, you just need to type the headline into Google News and click on the link. It's kind of a pathetic security perimeter, like a castle that leaves the key to its main gate under the welcome mat. Well, now Google has announced that it is closing the loophole, a tiny bit, by allowing publishers to limit Internet surfers to reading five articles...  

The University of Vermont will participate in a live interactive webcast Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. called Inside the Admissions Office, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal On Campus.Admissions deans and directors at eight schools will give students an inside look at their decision-making processes and reveal what applicants need to know to make their applications stand out.  

HYDERABAD, India, November 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Worldwide print-to-online publisher Pressmart Media Ltd. (http://www.pressmart.com) formally announces the launch of their latest newspaper eEdition for The Wall Street Journal Asia, the leader for global business news in Asia. With clients in 49 countries and 24 languages, Pressmart provides digital publishing solutions for publications across the globe.  

Wall Street Journal Supports Break-Up Of Big BanksAdd the Wall Street Journal editorial board --  to the growing ranks of those calling for a restoration of barriers between commercial and investment banking. \The editorial heavily criticized Democratic proposals to...read more  

Via Conservatives4Palin comes this article at the Wall Street Journal (of all places), about Arizona Senator (and the GOP’s presidential nominee last year) John McCain’s appearance on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier today. The article is yet another prime example of how the media purposefully distort comments made by conservatives, to manufacture controversies meant to weaken…  

China plans penetrating South Eastern European markets for the beneficial economic context after the economic crisis. Chinese companies already started negotiating with Romanian and Bulgarian authorities, and the Chinese government offers 1 billion dollars credit for the Republic of Moldova - which will cover 2 years of current account deficits, The Wall Street Journal reads.  

In a Wall Street Journal column last week, Rebublican columnist Peggy Noonan reveals to us that we’re a nation adrift. Millions of productive Americans, she says, are despondent about the direction of the nation. In melancholic, heartfelt tones she explains that many Americans feel alienated by both political parties, and yearn for an as-yet-to-be-found leader to offer hope for their despair. She laments: … [P]eople are becoming and have...  

I apologize for posting my own article on here, but I thought you all would enjoy reading it. Via Conservatives4Palin comes this article at the Wall Street Journal (of all places), about Arizona Senator (and the GOP’s presidential nominee last year) John McCain’s appearance on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier today. The article is yet another prime example of how the media purposefully distort comments made by conservatives, to manufacture...  

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? It seems to me that Richard Lindzen is not a good scientist. He writes: >Richard S. Lindzen: The Climate Science Isn't Settled: The potential (and only the potential) for alarm enters with the issue of climate sensitivity—which refers to the change that a doubling of CO2 will produce in GATA. It is generally accepted that a doubling of CO2 will only produce a change of about two degrees Fahrenheit...  

Glenn Reynolds linked this piece by the ordinarily very average Noonan. Peggy seems to have discovered that incentives matter, or at least stumbled into an actual live specimen businessman who understands that incentives matter. PEGGY NOONAN: We’re Governed by Callous Children: Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don’t even notice. But John Galt [...]  

"Racism alleged in Wall Street Journal editorial on Butler": Today's edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contains an article that begins, "A state senator, a former state Supreme Court justice and a Wisconsin lawyer accused The Wall Street Journal of...  

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- For the months of August and October 2009, four different MassMutual Funds available through MassMutual's SmartArchitecture(SM) Investment Program have been crowned "Category Kings" by The Wall Street Journal. The MassMutual F...  

A video is available in the American The Wall Street Journal website, where the ninety-nine-year-old Yelena Abrahamyan who survived the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey shares her experiences ...  

As we learn more about the causes of the global financial melt-down, aka great recession, the lessons appear more applicable to health care.  My latest example comes from last week's Wall Street Journal.  There appeared an article by a Professor from the Faculty of Management of McGill University (Montreal, Canada) on executive compensation that has important lessons for health care (Mintzberg H. No more executive bonuses. Wall Street Journal...  

The big national media folks are covering my favorite little indie band, and so I'm going to react with the usual mix of prideful satisfaction over the validation and immature resentment over them not totally getting it. The Wall Street Journal sank its teeth into the Burgundy Revolution this week, under this fairly provocative headline: "Are the Redskins Losing Washington? Another Bad Season and Continued Missteps Are Loosening a Disparate...  

In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, there is an extensive discussion and review of nine different e-Readers.  It’s a good article that addresses both the popularity of the devices as well as their limitations and ...  

Earlier this year, after a rash of criticism that their financial crisis coverage was far too fluffy, and that they weren't taking this thing seriously, the Wall Street Journal vowed to start addressing the real issues. Nobody wanted to start losing serious investors to the Times and wouldn't it be great if Rupes could say his reporters were ahead of the curve prior to the next crash? They started by tackling something huge: a Page One expos...  

That's the latest word from Peggy Noonan re Barack Obama's continued steady plunge in the polls. (His Real Clear Politics aggregate is now below 50%, albeit by the narrowest margin possible.) By way of explanation for this decline, ...  

"Everything we have done in the last year has been exactly the wrong thing to do in response to this [financial] crisis," Stephen Moore said. Moore, a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, has appeared on Fox News and CNBC, and has worked with the Cato Institute.  

Sarah Palin and MeWall Street JournalSarah Palin and I have little in common politically. I disagree with her on foreign policy, economic policy and Roe v. ...and more »  

Illustratively-speaking. Sometimes the Journal makes its subjects look like Biff from Back To The Future. Sometimes they base the headcut on your high school yearbook photo. Sometimes they charitably move you several spots up on the evolutionary timeline than your Cro-Magnon Man visage suggests you belong. Sometimes they just make people look entirely unrecognizable, for sport. But today I think we need to give credit where credit's due. Rupes...  

Arutz Sheva Israel Raises Key Rate to 1% Amid Economic ReboundWall Street Journal(Israel's conservatively managed banks ended up weathering the financial crisis better than most.) Facing recession, governments can be tempted to …TEXT – Israel cenbank statement on interest rate decisionReutersFischer surprises with rate hike for DecemberHa’aretzFischer: Interest rate will rise to 1%, but remain low [...]  

*This importance treatise on the Obama presidency has been bumped up * During the presidential campaign, Peggy Noonan rhapsodized about an Obama presidency, trashing Hillary Clinton to the bargain. Recent months have seen Ms. Noonan pen several articles deconstructing her prior romantic notions, reaching the same conclusions as the very people she derided [...]  

Despite the Recession, Sysco Stock Keeps Cooking Wall Street Journal One bright spot has been its sales to the fast-food industry, which accounts for roughly 20% of total annual revenue of $36 billion. Fast-food chains are ..  

On Friday, there was an article about the “Southern Dating Game” in the Wall Street Journal. Although we at Auburn were honored to be mentioned in such a prestigious newspaper, I don’t believe the article portrayed the true reasons for our southern traditions.  

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wall Street Journal's annual CEO Council meeting -- with more than 100 CEOs, leading policy makers and members of the U.S. Congress participating -- concluded today with the release of an action plan comprised of specific priorities that both government and business must address to ensure sustainable global prosperity.  

A Romanian security researcher that goes by the handle "Unu" has made public his latest conquest. He managed to gain access to databases of the The Wall Street Journal using an SQL injection. Furth...  

Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe writes: I am not a great admirer of Peggy Noonan as a journalist. Most of the time, she aims at capturing a mood, and I generally find the lack of analysis and the sentimentalism so visible in her work offputting. There are, however, moments when she hits the ball out of the park, and she did so just a few days ago in The Wall Street Journal . Noonan began by...Instapundit.com (subscribe) : THE BEST AND...  

Perhaps to atone in part for her emetic epistle last year on The One's imminent election, Peggy Noonan has a brief moment of clarity.Read it all, but here's a key quote:***...When I see those in government, both locally and in Washington, spend and tax and come up each day with new ways to spend and tax—health care, cap and trade, etc.—I think: Why aren't they worried about the impact of what they're doing? Why do they think America is so...  

In a celebratory, star-studded World Cup draw here Friday, the U.S. earned a high-profile opening test against England. Powerhouses Brazil and Portugal landed in what looks to be "Group of Death" with African the Ivory Coast. And the luck of the ...  

NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wall Street Journal is convening nearly 100 of the world's leading chief executives today and tomorrow to address urgent business and political issues at the annual meeting of the Journal's CEO Council (http://ceocouncil.wsj.com). The conference will take place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington D.C.  

John McCain may have been the GOP's national standard-bearer just a year ago, but now he's in electoral trouble at home. And this time no one can claim it's because of Sarah Palin. A new Rasmussen poll shows the Arizona Senator in a dead heat with ...  

Emily Blunt as Queen Victoria, Rupert Friend as Prince Albert in 'The Young Victoria.' "Her story is about instant celebrity and self-empowerment," says screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who wrote "The Young Victoria," a new film about the tumult of the ...  

Here’s an interesting article by Peggy Noonan called, “He Can’t Take Another Bow” where Noonan talks about the photos of Dr. Utopia happily prostrating himself before everyone from the Saudi king to the Emperor of Japan and President of China.  These are shameless and disgusting photos that must serve as porn for the far-left:  an American [...]  

Here are the key points from an article I saw today. It is a bit simpler to me. I would say that the reasons to start sooner than later are not only that you have a better chance of finding a good fit for your needs but it takes longer now to get a loan approved, interest rates are very low but are likely to increase as the recovery progresses and federal borrowing increases, and there will likely be a bit of a rush on what is left in the...  

"Securities professionals, regardless of what their business card says, should be subject to the same standard of conduct, the same licensing and qualification requirements, the same disclosure obligations, the same regulatory and record-keeping ...  

Peggy Noonan: At a certain point, a president must own a presidency. For George W. Bush that point came eight months in, when 9/11 happened. From that point on, the presidency -- all his decisions, all the credit and blame for them -- was his. The American people didn't hold him responsible for what led up to 9/11, but they held him responsible for everything after it. This is part of the reason the image of him standing on the rubble of the...  

Alexandra Pais/For The Star-LedgerThe Pfizer facility in South Brunswick was closed Monday.SOUTH BRUNSWICK -- Last week, Dow Jones announced it was closing its Wall Street Journal printing plant in South Brunswick, a move that will slash about 55 jobs. Then,...  

In the past week there’s been a lot talk about the Wall Street Journal threatening to pull its content from Google and why it’s a good idea or sheer lunacy. Let’s be clear. I think this entire thing is saber rattling on both sides and that Murdoch really just wants a “piece of the action.” I [...]This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review. How Bing and the Wall...  

The Journal provides minute-by-minute analysis of the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament draw from Cape Town, South Africa. Journal staffers Matthew Futterman (in Cape Town) and Dave Kansas (in Chicago) offer commentary on the 32-team draw and the ...Read Full Article  

Somecity, MI (www.MichiganPR.net) December 3, 2009 - Worldwide print-to-online publisher Pressmart Media Ltd. (www.pressmart.com) formally announces the launch of their latest newspaper eEdition for The Wall Street Journal Asia, the leader for global business news in Asia.  

It's been more than a decade since armed militia and security forces loyal to Cambodian strongman Hun Sen violently suppressed the democratic opposition to consolidate the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) in power, and the country is once again on the ...  

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: Hulu’s growing pains are emblematic of old media’s challenges and symptomatic of its pedigree. Hulu is the free premium video site that was launched by News Corp. (NWS) and NBC (GE) and today also includes Disney/ABC (DIS) as a third parent. A bit of a disclaimer: WatchMojo supplies Hulu with a plethora of videos across multiple categories.Complete Story »  

The Chosun IlboWall Street Journal Op-Ed on North Korean Currency “Reform”Asia Security Initiative News & Blog (blog)Peterson Institute for International Economics Deputy Director Marcus Noland has published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on North Korea's announcement ...S Korea likely to extend emergency economic measuresXinhuaall 924 news articles »  

Ken Doctor submits: It's hard to gauge the impact of New York Times (NYT) and Wall Street Journal (NWS) moves into metro markets. They could be simple, print retention strategies aimed, at holding on to valuable print readers -- the magnets for still-lucrative print advertising -- for as long as possible.Longer-term, it could be a Last Man Standing strategy, figuring that newspaper readers may well scale back their daily reading to a single...  

Wall street journal's India web site introduces personal finance coverageIndiantelevision.comWSJ.com) today introduced Personal Finance coverage that will include a weekly advice column entitled "Maximum Money: Personal finance strategies to ...and more »  

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page takes a break from running Sarah Palin-authored op-eds today and instead runs a piece by one of her biggest journalistic supporters, Matthew Continetti of The Weekly Standard. It is, as Brendan Nyhan has already noted, not very persuasive. Continetti, whose book The Persecution of Sarah Palin comes out this week,...  

Hedge-funder Mark Spitznagel in the Wall Street Journal huzzahs Ludwig von Mises' nearly century-old Theory of Money and Credit for laying out the basics about why we are in such an econ-jam these days, and pointing toward a path alas not-taken toward a solution. An excerpt: when the government holds rates artificially low in order to feed ever higher capital investment in otherwise unsound, unsustainable...  

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skyline Construction (www.skylineconst.com) has been recognized nationally as an exceptional employer whose workplace environment fosters teamwork, flexibility and professional growth while delivering award-winning results. On 9/28/09, The Wall Street Journal and Winning Workplaces selected Skyline Construction as one of the 15 Top Small Workplaces in America out of nearly 630 nominations from the public...  

This Wall Street Journal article is trying really hard to find something sinister in the story of a recently constructed mosque in Nicaragua. The piece leads by reporting that the "ever-present Managua rumor mill" is suggesting that the Iranian government may have paid for it, since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a close ally of President Daniel Ortega. On the other hand, no one is able to corroborate these rumors, no evidence is presented...  

From last evening in the Wall Street Journal, a very good piece. Nothing new for readers of Mises.org but still very encouraging. The Man Who Predicted the Depression Ludwig von Mises explained how government-induced credit expansions led to imbalances in the economy. By MARK SPITZNAGEL Ludwig von Mises was snubbed by economists world-wide as he warned of a credit crisis in the 1920s. We ignore the great Austrian at our peril today. Mises...  

These two videos are about workers in Dubai. I’ll do now what I do not do often on this blog. I’ll quote the Wall Street Journal, aka the War Street Journal (if you do a Google search on War Street Joournal, it brings you to the Wall Street Journal site), owned by arch warmonger Rupert Murdoch: DUBAI [...]  

The Wall Street Journal is to hire about a dozen reporters in New York to cover local news, the New York Times reported. The news comes just days after the paper announced the closure of its Boston bureau, for financial reasons. It was reported earlier this year that the Wall Street Journal was planning to start a New York edition, and the new staff will presumably be working for this. They are to cover traditional city desk beats like...  

Barbara Quint writes: The primary attraction for the new Wall Street Journal Professional Edition [an online resource] lies in its incorporation of Factiva content. The service will integrate content from 17,000 Factiva sources with WSJ.com content to create news flows covering key industries, companies, etc. Users will also be able to search a 1-year archive of [...]  

It all started with a simple question:  How good is the starting line-up of the LA Lakers in 2009-10?  That was the question David Biderman – of the Wall Street Journal – asked me at the start of this season.  From that question came the following article: Few Starting Lineups Could Top These Celtics As one [...]  

Something for those media executives considering building pay walls around their content, Matt Busse details how to read the WSJ for free using Google. “Oh, and this isn’t new. It’s been an open secret since at least March 2008,” adds Busse. Full post at this link… Similar Posts: Reuters: Google CEO raises doubts about Murdoch’s online pay walls Google Ads [...]  

The Wall Street Journal's new Europe edition comes out today, with changes to both print and online offerings. The US edition of the WSJ will no longer be printed and distributed in London, and its subscribers will be offered the...  

A page on Facebook, the social-networking Web site, became Ms. Palin's main sounding board. Nearly one million people have “friended” her. The page is accessible to people who aren't Facebook members. Wait until the Sarah Palin 2012 ...  

Todays print edition of the Wall Street Journal is carrying an OpEd by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew entitled, Our Indivisible Environment: If life is sacred, so is the entire web that sustains it. We invite you to pickup a copy of the Wall Street Journal or read online: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574485341504345488.html  

The Wall Street Journal is launching a San Francisco edition on Thursday, joining The New York Times and the ailing local newspaper, the Chronicle, in a battle for readers in the Bay Area.The News Corp.-owned Journal said the San Francisco edition will focus on local news and events and appear every Thursday. It also said the Journal's website, WSJ.com, will feature regularly updated local news.  

The Wall Street Journal said its new San Francisco Bay Area edition will launch Thursday, with a weekly section devoted to local news. It joins The New York Times in moving into big media markets that have seen local newspapers struggle amid an advertising and economic slump. The foray is designed to lure local advertisers and boost circulation. They see San Francisco as a good place to start because it has a high number of educated, affluent...  

From the newspaper's "Best of the Web Today" on Nov. 9, a round-up of the web media's take on the shootings at Fort Hood:   But Susan Campbell-style denial is merely the mirror image of such prejudice. It is as stupid to exonerate "Islam" for crimes committed in the name of Islamic supremacy as it is to issue a blanket condemnation of the faith or its adherents. It's a pointless argument in which each side's ignorance serves mainly to...  

Dubai’s debt issues caused trouble in other parts of the world Friday. Stock markets from Europe to Asia to the U.S. registered the effects of the city-state’s announcement that it would need to put off paying back $60 billion in debt incurred from investments, according to The Wall Street Journal.  —KA The Wall Street Journal: The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 233 points at its morning low and ended the shortened post-Thanksgiving...  

As has been rumored for a long time, Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal is in the final stages of prepping a New York–specific newsroom, in anticipation of a section launch sometime next year. The team will focus on local news, treating this new department like the Bay Area edition that is also in the works. Journal editors have already started trying to poach journalists from rival publications, hoping to fill the staff with about a dozen...  

I wrote the other day about the ‘amusing’ dust-up between the RealClimate blog and Levitt and Dubner, authors of Super Freakonomics. Well today I see in the Wall Street Journal, a defense of Levitt and Dubner, but it’s an odd one. It actually supplies no facts (unlike the article I sited) just a criticism of ‘pro-climate-change’ [...]  

PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Dec 3ForbesBut last month, its Sanford C Bernstein brokerage unit jumped back into IPOs, using its sales force to help Dollar General Corp sell shares in an offering ...and more »  

Associated Press | Wall Street Journal | Portfolio.com You can read it here. || San Francisco Chronicle says it will begin using high-quality glossy paper. || Matt Haber: "It makes sense that outsiders would see an opportunity in San Francisco."  

Climate Emails Stoke Debate: Scientists’ Leaked Correspondence Illustrates Bitter Feud over Global Warming (Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2009). The Wall Street Journal article notes: Representatives of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a large professional organization, expressed concern that the hacked emails would weaken global resolve to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. One would expect true scientists [...]  

NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wall Street Journal today announced it will launch a San Francisco Bay Area edition focusing on local news and events, beginning tomorrow, Nov. 5, and appearing locally every Thursday in the A-section of the print Journal. In addition, WSJ.com will provide regularly updated local news and information at WSJ.com/SF.  

NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wall Street Journal and Unigo, an online platform and resource for future and current college students and their parents, have entered into a strategic relationship to launch a new student initiative -- WSJ On Campus (http://wsj.unigo.com). Beginning today, WSJ On Campus offers relevant and informative content from The Wall Street Journal, complemented by on-campus contributions and insider...