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William Powers points to Wall Street Journal publisher
L. Gordon Crovitz's letter to readers, which said his paper reduced its size primarily because of reader requests. Crovitz referred "only parenthetically to what everyone knows is the crucial factor, newsprint costs," notes Powers. "This is classic top-down mediaspeak, pomposity rooted in insecurity. It's why newspapers are the butt of so many jokes, while relatively lightweight New Media outlets are taken seriously. They seem to speak more plainly and with less guile." ||
Al Neuharth on the retooled WSJ: "A still bland face."
