Posted on 03/17/2016 8:03:11 AM PDT by poconopundit
| The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) used to be the most respected business newspaper in the world. But if you look at the headline image at the top of the WSJ Twitter page what do you see?
You see illustrations of famous personalities. Let's see: alongside Warren Buffet there's is Miss Piggie. To the left of Queen Elizabeth is Bart Simpson. Then, in the upper left hand corner, there is Grumpy Cat. Then mixed among Obama, Hillary, and Chris Christy we see what looks like a few Hollywood entertainers. Besides Buffet, tThe only business person I recognize is Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook.
Is this the best America can do for a business journal? What do you think? |
The one girl begged them not to sell but when the underwriter told one of the Trustees they sell or not they owed 40 Million them if the sold it or not.
He was so cheap that was the deciding factor.
News Corp’s stated goal when it bought the Wall Street Journal was to make it more of a newspaper with style, religion, movie reviews, personal tech, real estate (for rich people) and other interest stories that went beyond business. I read them sometimes but I do think it cheapened the brand.
Just another result from the ongoing dumbing-down of America.
Good one!
And they do seem to cross over into the entertainment world quite a bit. And in just about every issue there's a nice advertising spread for Viagra.
I believe Steve Forbes sold out his magazine too, and now only writes an editorial column for Forbes.
I suppose each of these magazines has a bloated staff of highly paid writers/editors and the only way to keep things going is to get more money from newsstand sales and lots of advertorials.
Sad to see, but it opens opportunity for others to arise with more hungry writers who are probably just as good as the elite journalists they now employ.
Another case where social media is destroying outdated business models.
| Actually this Twitter header is worse than I thought. Partially obscured by the WSJ logo, there's a picture of a toilet next to Queen Elizabeth. How's that for Anglo-American business relations!
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No it isn’t. This is twitter. What do you expect on twitter except a bunch of dumb twits?
Paul Gigot is a disgrace.
This is completely off topic, but my son is a fantastic portrait artist. He is easily as good or better than whoever drew these. He is 18 and casting around for a career. Do people who have this kind of talent make a decent living with it? What would I steer him to, degree wise, if he wanted to pursue a career along these lines? I know absolutely nothing about the ins and outs of commercial art. Thanks.
| Great. Why don't you post a sample of what he does. I have seen somebody on the web advertising that he copies Al Hirschfeld's style. Since I am a small publisher, at one point I hired a guy to make a few dozen humorous black and white cartoons I could use in presentations. My thinking is it would be hard to build a career of illustrations alone. But if your son is a writer he could work the two angles together. As the Baby Boomer generation gets older, photographs are not that flattering :- ). So stylized portraits should be good for all kinds of blogazines featuring the commentary of professionals. I've seen high tech conference events where all the speakers were given illustrated pictures. And because it's rare it adds a professional polish as opposed to headshots that are all different styles. Show us some samples. |
As this was sent my direction I’ll add my 2 cents regarding a subject I know little about. No magazine has been purchased since the time Clinton dropped his trousers in the WH No subscriptions renewed nor news stand copies purchased. This from an avid fan of publications such as Woman’s Day, Southern Living, Family Circle, Metropolitan Home? (IIRC which in the beginning was called Apartment Life). The pages within had morphed into the DNC arm in first and third mentioned. The others for a number of reasons, poor content, more ads than content.
The last magazine opened was Birds and Blooms. No ads, interesting articles, beautiful photos. And, sometimes a recipe tip for our friendly creatures (ie. Butterfly Brew for the migrating Monarchs).
As there is no Twitter,SnapShot? or Facebook used, the concept is completely foreign.
The WSJ has not been read nor purchased in years. Before retiring, it was read daily more often than not. No news print is purchased and our two local newspaper subscriptions were cancelled years ago.
ALL the current news and information is found on the web from many different sources or by Rush on radio or by certain TV networks. (Adding the RoKu device has made the viewing of current events much easier and faster to find)
This is the story and I’m sticking to it. :-))
They have a British editor. He’s a little strange to American sensibilities and traditions.
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