{"id":817,"date":"2009-10-21T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T12:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2009-10-21T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T12:58:58","slug":"wsj-lets-differentiate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Let&#8217;s Differentiate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"The Wall Street Journal\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/59\/WSJ_Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"127\" \/>As some may recall, I have had a love-hate relationship with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>.\u00a0 Over the years they have had some great news, but their editorials have often been nothing short of ridiculous.\u00a0 I threatened some time ago to part ways with them, taking my money with me.\u00a0 Three changes make me think I should go ahead and cancel. First, there are videos now on the Journal home page.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some news for the newspaper: if I wanted to watch the news, I could turn on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, the headline reads, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704597704574486791227424728.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews\">Dow Jones to Launch &#8216;Professional Edition&#8217; of Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, for $45 per month, one can get news for professionals.\u00a0 To quote the article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The targeted users are businesses and individuals who need more specialized information about energy or corporate bonds, for example, than is available from WSJ.com, but aren&#8217;t the large companies targeted for costlier services by Dow Jones Newswires or Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/Users\/elear\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" \/>That all sounds great, except isn&#8217;t that why I was already paying $149 per year?\u00a0 While the reporting on the Journal is good, it&#8217;s certainly not as good as it used to be.\u00a0 And indeed the New York Times has been doing a better job for all but financial news.\u00a0 I wonder where all the money to start up the new service is coming from?\u00a0 Might some of it be some of my subscription dues?\u00a0 Why should I believe this is anything other than a clumsy attempt to create differentiation?\u00a0 Sort of like when airlines added Business Class.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your source for financial news?\u00a0 Maybe I should move my money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some may recall, I have had a love-hate relationship with the Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 Over the years they have had some great news, but their editorials have often been nothing short of ridiculous.\u00a0 I threatened some time ago to part ways with them, taking my money with me.\u00a0 Three changes make me think I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WSJ: Let&#8217;s Differentiate!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[283,284,245],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-stuff","tag-fox","tag-st00pid","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}