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Matt hits paydirt at the WSJ. Money quote:

At this point, one needs to think that letting Rupert Murdoch destroy the WSJ news pages might be better for the world than letting the WSJ news pages' credibility continue to provide a \"halo effect\" to the editorial page.

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