He writes: "In the annals of stories The Wall Street Journal would not have done, much less placed on A3, pre-Rupert Murdoch, here's a prime example: 'Bushes Buy Dallas Home for Residence' - Really? Tell me more! Here's the lede:
"'President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush said Thursday that they have bought a house in a wealthy enclave in Dallas and will return here once the president leaves office.'
"The paper spills 600 words on this story, which might be justifiably placed on A3 of the Dallas Morning News (or maybe its community-zone edition), but not of The Wall Street Journal," Mr. Chittum scolds. "There's a near-catastrophic financial crisis going on, Rupert, and your paper is very often getting its rear end handed to it by folks like Bloomberg and the dreaded New York Times."
LIVING ARCHIVES
Veteran journalist Daniel Schorr, who at age 92 is the last member of Edward R. Murrow's legendary CBS reporting team who is still active in journalism, will join past "conversationists" like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barbara Bush by participating in a National Archives "American Conversation."
Currently senior news analyst for National Public Radio, Mr. Schorr has covered the administrations of 12 presidents and the beginning and the end of the Cold War.
He will be welcomed to the podium at 7 p.m. Thursday by Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Building.