SlateMedia scholar
Ben Compaine suspects
Rupert Murdoch had something to do with all of the A1 Pakistan stories last week. "What was always compelling about the Journal was Page 1, with stories you would find nowhere else," he says. WSJ readers already knew "all this Pakistan stuff from Yahoo or whatever they use as a home page." Dailies are supposed to be trying to get out of the business of printing yesterday's stale news, he notes.
