I highly recommend Captain Ed's take on Stephens motivations.
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/003793.php#comments
The analysis continues in the comments from Max:
"The WSJ first tried to bury this story, and now that it can't, to throw water on the flames.
It is clear that this is the case given that James Taranto of the WSJ's Best of the Web has yet to mention what is in fact the biggest story on the web. His failure to do so can imo only be attributed to a conscious decision by the WSJ to protect Eason Jordan and CNN. Both he and the WSJ have lost a lot of credibility with me, and I'm sure others, over their handling of this."
"I tried to post a reply to Stephens' article and got a message along the lines of 'this article is over a week old and replys will not be posted'."
"I tried to post a reply to Stephens' article and got a message along the lines of 'this article is over a week old and replys will not be posted'."
UNHEARD OF!
I responded to that article before I posted it here. And as I mentioned in my original post, it's the featured article of the day, something they don't do every day, I think it's sort of a usage audit. The response must have been crashing their servers!
LOL, first the Noonan aposty and now this. Even the Wall Street Journal does not know the true power of the internet.
It took them FOREVER to get the reponses up to the noonan article. It is 1:25 pm Eastern time, there's nothing up for any of today's pieces yet, and there's usual some repsonses up by now.
I'll have to go back to the site and try and respond again.
I just tried again, you DO have to be registered to read it now, since it is the featured article. I thought you had to just give an email addy, I was wrong about what I said before.
But I was still able to send in a response to it.