Is the Wall Street Journal trying to hide something??

A new tabloid-format satire of the Wall Street Journal will go on sale this week, yet someone has already snatched all of them up from newsstands around L.A. The satire, called "My Wall Street Journal," "mostly sets out to skewer The Journal’s new owner, the News Corporation, and its chairman, Rupert Murdoch, with swipes at News properties like Fox News, The New York Post and The Journal itself." says the article. Last Thursday, a man with a Journal logo on his shirt came to a newsstand in L.A. and asked if they had any papers looking similar to the Journal. When the clerk found them, the man bought ALL of them with a corporate American Express, saying first that they had to make corrections, or that it wasn't ready to be sold yet, and finally said that it wasn't being put out by the Wall Street Journal.

I think it's pretty funny that the man kept saying different things while purchasing the satires. The article also said that the man had gone to different newsstands doing the same thing. I hope the people from the Journal don't try to purchase every copy, because I sure would like to see one. But if the Journal is trying to hide something that the satire is going to expose, I think they would be better off running something in their paper, as opposed to buying 250,000 copies of this thing.

The Times says I'm Sorry!

After publishing an article on March 17 about an attack on rapper Tupac Shakur, the Los Angeles Times retracts it after the articles credibility was questioned. "The Web site The Smoking Gun first raised questions about the authenticity of the documents on March 26." The day after The Smoking Gun's questions, a front page apology was run, stating the paper would fully investigate. Since fully investigating, The Times has removed the article and it's related materials off of the web-site, and even directs viewers to the retraction, which states the article was removed because it “relied heavily on information that The Times no longer believes to be credible.”

I think it is amazing the lengths people businesses will go to keep their customers. To actually listen to this web-sites questions, run a front page apology, research the article, then to remove it and post a 600-word retraction...that's dedication to their readers. I commend The Times for their prompt attention to this issue, and taking every step necessary to not upset their readers.