Romenesko

Slate
Thursday's Wall Street Journal shows that while front page space can be bought, the paper can't, says Jack Shafer. There's an HP ad on A1, and the lead story is about the HP boardroom scandal. "Instead of treating the arrival of front-page ads as some sort of last straw for a distressed industry, newspapers would be smarter to treat it as the first step in their modernization." (Even though they were prevalent in the 19th century.)