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by Paul Wells on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 11:11pm - 7 Comments

The Wall Street Journal prepares to launch an arts and culture section. This, while most other papers are hacking their arts coverage to ribbons. But then, the WSJ is bucking all kinds of trends these days.

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  • whereisian

    If it's anything like their opinion section, it won't be worth the packets they're sent on.

  • Anon

    And lest we forget — this is now a Murdoch paper. Thank God the guy loves newspapers. Him and Black.

    Once these two are gone, I guess it will be Sponsored Salons (a la Katharine Weymouth/WP) for print publications everywhere.

    At some point, the newspapers are going to have to get together and form some sort of a cartel that would force "fee for carriage" on the various ISPs who carry their web content. I don't see how the advertising model can sustain them for very much longer.

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    The PBS – " This is fund-raising week. And next week too. Uh, and so was last week " – option …

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/…

  • scf

    The WSJ is a great paper, I'm not surprised they are the only one bucking the trend.

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