Wall Street Journal aka WSJ turning into Wall Street Masala (Gossip)
Wall Street Journal is known for printing news paper full of financial news on front page. But recently I have observed it publishing more gossip stories than news about finance, quarterly results of various companies, economic situation of United States and World and other business related news.
If you see news paper edition of 02/25/2009 you will see a love story of Chander Mohan aka Chand Mohammad (former deputy Chief Minister (equivalent to the position of Governor in US) of Haryana ) right on the front page.
With the advent of internet, blogs, twitter, online video news channel etc. news paper industry is losing money and we see more and more people reading news on internet rather than the traditional source such as news paper. To increase sales, news paper like WSJ is employing good old technique of publishing gossip story on front page. Sex always sells and WSJ adopting that “dirty” strategy to sell more news paper seems very low.
Well can someone please explain me why in the world WSJ will publish a love story of Deputy Chief Minister of one of the state of India on front page? Do they have no contents to publish on front page? Is it some kind of political move by WSJ (they did print a story about Vikram Pandit (CEO of Citigroup) to defile reputation of some executives? Do WSJ ever print Britney Spears or Paris Hilton Story on front page? Is it an attempt to attack of secular democracy in India?
It would be more pleasing and interesting to see financial and business news on front page by news paper like WSJ. If they want to publish such story it will be more apt if they put it somewhere in the inside pages and precisely in gossip section.
