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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:48 am Post subject: Asian Wall Street Journal WTF |
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| The Asian Wall Street Journal has gone with this new tab layout. Like WTF. It's easy to read on the subway but I like spreading out the weekend WSJ or the FT on my Starbucks table and spending an hour Saturday or Sunday morning reading it. Mrmrhph! |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| "Ooh look at me! I read the Wall Street Journal!" |
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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:16 am Post subject: |
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Is reading the WSJ (ooh, I called it the WSJ!) really anything to boast about?
It's one of the few half-decent English language newspapers you can get here. The FT is better though. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| hypnotist wrote: |
Is reading the WSJ (ooh, I called it the WSJ!) really anything to boast about?
It's one of the few half-decent English language newspapers you can get here. The FT is better though. |
The AWSJ does not have that annoying U.K.-centric style. Hence, IT is better.
Although the Martin Lukes thing is entertaining. |
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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| hypnotist wrote: |
Is reading the WSJ (ooh, I called it the WSJ!) really anything to boast about?
It's one of the few half-decent English language newspapers you can get here. The FT is better though. |
The AWSJ does not have that annoying U.K.-centric style. Hence, IT is better.
Although the Martin Lukes thing is entertaining. |
You may find the UK-centric style of the FT annoying, but for me it makes it a cut above the US-centric style of papers like the WSJ and IHT. The international coverage in the FT is usually slightly more balanced, too. Amusingly the columns and op-eds in the IHT and the WSJ are invariably far more right-wing than the news coverage suggests the paper to be. The op-eds in the FT are usually excellent reading. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| hypnotist wrote: |
| dogbert wrote: |
| hypnotist wrote: |
Is reading the WSJ (ooh, I called it the WSJ!) really anything to boast about?
It's one of the few half-decent English language newspapers you can get here. The FT is better though. |
The AWSJ does not have that annoying U.K.-centric style. Hence, IT is better.
Although the Martin Lukes thing is entertaining. |
You may find the UK-centric style of the FT annoying, but for me it makes it a cut above the US-centric style of papers like the WSJ and IHT. The international coverage in the FT is usually slightly more balanced, too. Amusingly the columns and op-eds in the IHT and the WSJ are invariably far more right-wing than the news coverage suggests the paper to be. The op-eds in the FT are usually excellent reading. |
If you are a Commonwealth type, undoubtedly you find the FT better. I read both and safely ignore the op-eds. The difference to me is that the FT has more "homeland" news about the Sceptered Isle that really is irrelevant to me and anyone else with no connection there. I mean, really, WTF cares about Wales? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| hypnotist wrote: |
Is reading the WSJ (ooh, I called it the WSJ!) really anything to boast about?
It's one of the few half-decent English language newspapers you can get here. The FT is better though. |
Yeah the FT and WSJ make for the best weekend paper reading. I really love the FT's "ask the economist" column. I like how people ask him ethical questions and he reduces them to economic principles. Great stuff. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| One of the things I really miss about home is reading the Sunday papers- Sunday Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday- that's your whole day right there. |
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