Promiscuity at the Wall Street Journal
Posted on | August 8, 2007 | No Comments
Valleywag reports today about Kara Swisher’s reported claim that the Wall Street Journal needs a little promiscuity. What you’re thinking is not what she was thinking, but it’s an amusing word in the context of Rupert Murdoch’s successful bid for Dow Jones. I thought immediately of two things: first back in my early days as a Statehouse reporter for UPI in Indiana, the Indianapolis Star had a reporter who was tight with most of us on the Statehouse beat. She wrote a long feature that came back to haunt her among her colleagues. In it, she quoted the old song but called it “The Girl with Emphysema” instead of “The Girl from Ipanema.”
The second point is that the Journal is missing a little something-something in my opinion. Since it cut back on the old broadsheet forms, it’s pages are missing that “holy shit” response I used to get every day. A little of that has come back in recent editions, but whether they’re writing fewer stories or they’re just not as compelling, I just don’t know.
Separately, my not-so-old colleague Loring Wirbel writes eloquently today on human adaptability in his marvelous blog.
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