Topic: Wall Street Journal

If There's a War on Men, Who's Winning Exactly?

Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto is not a rape apologist. He's not a woman hater. He only attacks sexual assault victims to help other women.

By Jen Doll

Jun 5, 2013

The Quiet Shame of the Half-Book Reader

We've considered types of book readers before, from the hate-reader to the multi-tasking bibliophile, but it's time to analyze another sort. Some people are plagued with guilt about the books they've left undone.

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By J.K. Trotter

Jun 4, 2013

Why the Wall Street Journal Hates Bikes So Much

Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz has become the most blogged-about nemesis of New York's new bike-sharing program yet, with media critics, liberal opinionators, and regular old bike-riders jumping on her comments about transportation "totalitarians." What gives?

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By Jen Doll

Apr 16, 2013

This Is Your Grandmother's Dance Party

On the lighter side of news today is a great story in The Wall Street Journal by E.S. Browning about how retirees are partying it up in Florida.

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By Esther Zuckerman

Feb 11, 2013

Chart of the Day

Michael Kors Is the Most Influential Person in New York, Apparently

The Wall Street Journal's new NYIndex is a little jarring — Michael Bloomberg and Mario Cuomo get thrown down past Chris Christie on a separate entry for politics, law, and government. But it is New York Fashion Week, after all.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 31, 2013

China Hacked the Wall Street Journal, Too

Less than a day after The New York Times revealed Chinese malware experts had cracked into its employee computer system, The Wall Street Journal said Thursday afternoon that it, too, has been "infiltrated." How bad was it, and is the Chinese government involved?

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By Connor Simpson

Dec 22, 2012

Politico Poo-Poos the Wall Street Journal's Big Fiscal Cliff Story

Since when did Politico become the media's biggest shot thrower? In this morning's Playbook email, Politico's Mike Allen took some shots at the Wall Street Journal for their big fiscal cliff story. 

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By Jen Doll

Sep 18, 2012

Separation Anxiety Is for Grownups, Too

If you are one of those people who really, really hates it when your loved ones have to leave, whether for weeks or days or minutes,, you may be interested in a piece in today's Wall Street Journal that deals with the topic of separation anxiety in adults.

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By Jen Doll

Sep 12, 2012

Workplace Whiners and the Other Coworkers You'll Know

Today in The Wall Street Journal Sue Shellenbarger discusses a type of coworker you've surely had the occasion to work with, assuming you've been working in an office environment for any time at all. This is, Shellenbarger writes, the "workplace whiner."

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By Elspeth Reeve

Jul 6, 2012

One Guy Not Buying Romney's Business Consultant Pitch: Rupert Murdoch

Conservatives might talk about running the government like a business, but they don't actually think we should do that.

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By Adam Martin

Jun 12, 2012

Wall Street Journal Reporter Resigns, But Not for Sleeping with a Source

In the end, it wasn't the sex with a source but the admission she shared unpublished stories with him that caused Wall Street Journal reporter Gina Chon to resign from the paper.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 27, 2012

The Most Evocative Terms for Male Facial Hair

In Friday's Wall Street Journal there's a deeply evocative piece on the many and varied mustache styles of baseball players and the many evocative words used to describe said mustaches.

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By John Hudson

Feb 20, 2012

Media Diet

Paul Steiger: What I Read

The ProPublica editor explains two of his media obsessions: Sports and women's fashion.

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By Richard Lawson

Dec 1, 2011

Behold New York's Coolest Neighborhood: 'Chumbo'

What exactly is the saddest/funniest thing about The Wall Street Journal's landmark new article "Cool Arrives in a Slice of Chinatown"? Let's try to figure that out.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 10, 2011

Zynga Defends Its Scandalous Options System

Zynga doesn't think there's anything wrong with forcing certain employees to give up their soon-to-be-very valuable stock options.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 13, 2011

Wall Street Journal Denies Guardian's Circulation Scam Story

Newspaper maintains that editorial integrity was what sunk the WSJ Europe Publisher

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 12, 2011

Circulation Scam Alleged at the Wall Street Journal Europe

The Guardian reports the European publisher quit over a scheme to boost print sales

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 11, 2011

British Parliament Will Hear from the Former Wall Street Journal Publisher

Les Hinton, will testify about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal later this month

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By Uri Friedman

Oct 4, 2011

Buffett Challenges Murdoch to a Game of Tax Return Chicken

The billionaire investor takes on the media mogul over taxing the rich

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By John Hudson

Sep 7, 2011

After Labor Day, Media Musical Chairs

The post-holiday media moves require a scorecard to keep track of

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By Eric Randall

Jul 25, 2011

Today's Best

Five Best Monday Columns

Aging democracies, Murdoch as Macbeth, and Google+ as alternative reality

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jul 20, 2011

Murdoch and His Apologists

The New York Observer joins the small group of people supporting News Corp.'s CEO

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 18, 2011

Catcalls Greet Wall Street Journal's Phone-Hacking Editorial

The Murdoch-owned paper argues that politicians and rivals are exploiting the scandal

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By Ujala Sehgal

Jul 16, 2011

Five Best Saturday Columns

On the WSJ's 'Fox-ification,' Google's origins, and a slavery lesson for Bachmann

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By John Hudson

Jun 3, 2011

Media Diet

Barney Frank: What I Read

The Massachusetts Democrat is a fan of Paul Krugman

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By Alex Eichler

May 6, 2011

Goldman Shareholders Meeting Either Boring or a Wacky Carnival

The New York Times paints a much more lively picture than the Journal

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By Adam Martin

May 5, 2011

Privacy Advocate Doesn't Trust the Wall Street Journal's Safehouse

Web security expert shreds Journal's Wikileaks clone

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By John Hudson

May 2, 2011

Front Page Roundup: Bin Laden's Death on Newspaper Homepages

The country's largest newspapers convey the Al-Qaeda leader's death

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