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Entry: Lies, Ignorance and "Useful Idiots"... Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/lies_ignorance_and_useful_idiots#13333 Post contents: Patric, One benefit of your survey of old newspapers: the wisdom of hindsight makes it easy to notice which source of information has been in touch with external reality, which has not. This may explain why The New York Times is declining in circulation, while Finacial Times in growing. Readers have drawn the obvious conclusion and are voting with their vallets. Similarly, compare FT with the Wall Street Journal. The only consolation here is that the fears about Murdoch's takeover leading to WSJ's tablodization are unfounded; there is no need to worry about this development because it has already happened. The detached, reflective consideration of all possible views -- including the perspectives of one's opponents -- which is FT's hallmark, has for years been almost totally missing from WSJ. Following the style common to tabloids, that journal is intellectually all black and white. Sent at: 2008 11 21