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Big picture of a full kilt rig on the front of the D section of today's WSJ (Saturday, August 25th). The story was about how Scottish style/fabrics are the latest thing. This link will take you to a page that shows the picture that was on the second page of the article. http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news- ... lture_main
Since the WSJ is a pay site, only the first paragraph of the story is available for free. Read the comments for a selection of mostly negative thoughts. I think it took 14 comments until the word "gay" showed up.
Stuart Gallion
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Back in my skirts in San Francisco
skirted_in_SF wrote:Since the WSJ is a pay site, only the first paragraph of the story is available for free. Read the comments for a selection of mostly negative thoughts. I think it took 14 comments until the word "gay" showed up.
Recall that the WSJ is a Murdoch publication; that its readership may have slipped in quality in the past couple of decades should not come as much of a surprise.
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skirted_in_SF wrote:Since the WSJ is a pay site, only the first paragraph of the story is available for free. Read the comments for a selection of mostly negative thoughts. I think it took 14 comments until the word "gay" showed up.
Recall that the WSJ is a Murdoch publication; that its readership may have slipped in quality in the past couple of decades should not come as much of a surprise.
I have been a subscriber to the WSJ since 1975 and seriously considered cancelling my subscription when News Corp bought it a few years ago. But I decided to give it a few months and see what happened. In my opinion News Corp ownership hasn't changed the quality of their reporting too much, though there have been a few articles that I suspect were driven by ownership's point of view. Offsetting that, they still do good work on stories like the JP Morgan Chase London Whale issue.
The op-ed pages could be another story though. They have always been pretty conservative, and when I glance at them now I think they may be more so. Several decades ago the WSJ op-ed pages actually carried a regular column by the recently deceased Alexander Cockburn.
And don't get me started on the full page ads from the Fox Business News cable channel.
Stuart Gallion
No reason to hide my full name
Back in my skirts in San Francisco
GerdG wrote:Without knowing the WSJ a main problem might not be the editorial line but the readers - judging from the comments.
True. My comment was intended as a backhanded reference to a metric that is often applied to comments to blog posts. The measure is when there are disagreements, how many replies it takes for one party to call another a Nazi or fascist.
Stuart Gallion
No reason to hide my full name
Back in my skirts in San Francisco
Most of the comments seemed to be along the lines of "This is NOT Scottish dress.", "This is an insult to Scottish tradition.", or "My Scottish ancestors would be turning in their graves if they saw this crap.", that kind of stuff. And I would tend to agree with them. Though I do admit that I didn't read the article, not being a payed subscriber and all. It might have brought up those issues as far as I know.
