Wednesday, August 01, 2007

A Black Day for the Wall Street Journal, a Great Opportunity for the Times

Well, great if Pinch and family have the brains and the balls, and history doesn't give one hope.

The Times and the Journal were the two pre-eminent newspapers in the US, notwithstanding the Times' frequent water carrying for the wingnuts (paper still has a major hard-on for the Iraq fandango) and a few other idiosyncrasies.

But with Rupert's great victory, that number just got cut in half.

Now if the Times can just expand the business section to something on a par with the main news section and focus on Journal-quality journalism in the latter... people will snap it up. Hello, there are a lot of disaffected WSJ readers ready to switch to the Times.

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