Wall Street Journal

MEMO WSJ Editorial: Your page A8 piece on spiraling fuel costs of truckers this morning is a neat enough little survey but what kind of idiot there decided to illustrate it ("Burning up: The price of gasoline in May in selected countries" in your US print edition) with a chart of gasoline prices?

Guys, here's what's under the hood of trucks - compression ignition engines, not spark ignition. Different fuel: diesel, not gasoline.
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Any true journalist has to love the story in the Wall Street Journal editorial (WSJ 2007-06-06 pA18) of a former editor Vermont Royster visiting the White House in the early 1960s and being thanked by President Kennedy for "your support of our free trade agenda," and Royster's retort: "Young man, the Wall Street Journal was supporting free trade before you were born."

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The Wall Street Journal gives acres to coverage of the death throes of Detroit. Every day in the past week for example there's been something about the sell-off of Chrysler. That company's worth about $9 billion.
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