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WSJ Left Hand, Meet WSJ Right Hand (Marathon Bomber Edition)
From our Right Hand Doesn’t Know What the Left Hand Is Doing desk Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, who’s damned good and has a newly minted Pulitzer to prove it, wrote this yesterday: The Evil in Boston Before we … Continue reading
NYT Goes To War With WSJ
From our Campaign Outsider Blogeteria desk Monday’s New York Times gave a major facial to crosstown rival Wall Street Journal in this full-page ad targeted to potential advertisers: For the fine-print impaired: The Times’s U.S. audience across desktop, smartphone and … Continue reading
WSJ: The Bloody Aftermath Of The Boston Marathon Bombings
The Weekend Wall Street Journal features Brigham and Women’s Hospital doctor Emily Loving Aaronson’s first-hand account of the harrowing medical response to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings: On the Front-Lines of Battlefield Triage in Boston Hospital emergency rooms in the Boston … Continue reading
A Jason (No So) Gay Ol’ Time (Bill Rodgers Edition)
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay paid a melancholy visit to Boston Marathon icon Bill Rodgers in the wake of Monday’s tragic bombing. ‘Boston Billy’ Won’t Stop Running I wanted to go see Bill Rodgers, because when I was a … Continue reading
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Why The Wall Street Journal Is A Great Newspaper (Habemus Papam! Edition)
Granted, the hardworking staff doesn’t read everything, but the Weekend Wall Street Journal provides the first tick-tock we’ve seen on the Pope-a-Scope at the Vatican last month. Fifteen Days in Rome: How the Pope Was Picked The inside story: From … Continue reading
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For All You Know, Facebook Owns Your First-Born Child
The New York Times reports that “despite how much we say we value our privacy — and we do, again and again — we tend to act inconsistently,” which is the Times-nice way of saying stupidly. To half-wit: Letting Down Our Guard … Continue reading
Why God Made TV Critics
Two of the hardworking staff’s favorite television critics have very different takes on the sixth season premiere of AMC’s Mad Men. The Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz: Don Draper’s Inferno The sixth season of “Mad Men” brings a whiff of … Continue reading
Remembering Boston’s Own Michael Kelly, Killed Covering War In Iraq
Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens remembered the great Michael Kelly in his op-ed piece yesterday: Michael Kelly had an uncharitable term for the column you are about to read: “The Nice Column.” Nice columns—about ancient enmities overcome and people … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic Monthly, Bret Stephens, Fox News, Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, Iraq, Michael Kelly, Tony Snow, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
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WSJ Beats NYT On CDC Antismoking Ads
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has officially abandoned its effort to require tobacco companies to print graphic Australian-style warnings on cigarette packs. But that doesn’t mean the federal government has ended its sporadic antismoking effort. From Friday’s Wall Street Journal: Graphic New Antismoking Ads … Continue reading
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