So I’m the exact reverse of the media trend right now: I just signed up for my second hard-copy dead-tree newspaper. I subscribed last week to the Wall Street Journal, which I’ve been reading more and more over the last year at work, and I think it’s just a fantastic newspaper.
The amazing thing: It just has much more interesting articles than either the Washington Post or the New York Times, even though I don’t particularly care about the paper’s main industryóWall Street. On any given day, I’ll read a much higher percentage of the articles in the WSJ than even in the WaPo, which is my home town paper and covers the city that I’m supposed to cover. I think that the WSJ just has a much more interesting outlook on the world and covers more interesting stories. The A-hed, that odd quirky story in the middle of the WSJ’s front page, is always interesting but I rarely read a front-page feature in the Post. That’s especially true of the columnistsóI read all of the “In the Lead” column yesterday on Facebook’s new COO in the Journal and always read the C1 columnists like Carl Bialik (“The Numbers Guy“) but I more often than not skip over the Post’s columnists, except for Marc Fisher (of course).
The true pain for me? I pay something like $240 a year for the Post and am paying $99 a year for the Journal.
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