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WSJ going nowhere?

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Good spot by David at AdPulp:

Adam L. Penenberg an assistant professor at New York University writing in Wired says, “It might be hard to believe that The Wall Street Journal is in danger of becoming irrelevant, but it is.

Because you have to subscribe to access both current news articles and the archive, the Journal is leaving only a faint footprint in cyberspace. I googled “Enron” — an issue the Journal covered exhaustively, and which two of its reporters even wrote a book about — and not one article appeared within the first 25 pages (250 results.)”

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