Over and over, magazines and newspapers miss the truth about business by a mile. They’re so consistently bad, in fact, that the media has been a leading contrary indicator of stock prices and business trends. Here are seven cl…
CNN host Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor who resigned amid a prostitution scandal, was rejected for membership at the Harvard Club in New York City. The club rarely turns down qualified candidates, and Spitzer is a …
In a scandal that raises troubling questions about journalistic ethics in the Web era, writers for Breakingviews, a media property owned by Thompson Reuters, failed to disclose that they owned shares in companies they wrote abo…
The rest of the industry may be envisioning an all-digital future, by Frank Bennack Jr., vice chairman and CEO of Hearst Corp. is sanguine about the prospects for dead-tree newspapers. “They’ll be around as ink and paper for as…
If you have any doubt that The Wall Street Journal is fast becoming steeped in the corporate culture of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., check these quotations. Like Fox News, it declares victory (prematurely) and expresses contemp…