My inside source works at the Journal so I have a sentimental attachment to the paper. That said it has gone a bit off the rails lately. Also, the Monday-Thursday editions have shrunk from four sections to two and the Friday edition from four to three. The arts and culture reporting that used to be a separate section are now just a few pages in section A. Morale at the Journal is absolutely terrible.
It is so sad. For many years I considered the WSJ to be the finest paper in the USA and would read it cover-to-cover
every day.
The WSJ has always been second rate (or lower) compared to IBD ... but I don’t think any dead tree news source will survive the next 5 years.