Just curious, what do you read instead?

Financial Times? The Economist? New Yorker? There's a lot of decent, event better, magazines and newspapers.

The WSJ was once a great paper, when it stuck to business and financial reporting and before Bartley, Noonan, and the current scum took over the editorial page. One could read the WSJ, NY Times, New Yorker, The Nation, and The National review to get a good healthy mix and diversity of strong opinion. I shudder to think what will happen if Murdoch gets his hands on the Times. Just my two cents, YMMV :)

WSJ has some of the best journalism on the planet. The editorial page is crap, but no other paper has as many in-depth articles about global markets. Want to read about China's problem with renegade mayors? Want to read about how western fishing policies are decimating African octopus fisheries? You're not going to read about that anywhere else besides the Wall Street Journal.

The closest approximation to the Journal is the Economist, and that's a weekly.

Well I certainly agree with your comment about the editorial page, though it was far better years ago, even including serious opposing views for balance.

However I would even caution readers with respect to the articles in the rest of the paper. I could no longer read an article about chinese mayors and give it any credence given Murdoch's ownership.

It was a sad day for me. The WSJ was the only online journal I ever paid money for.

"I could no longer read an article about chinese mayors and give it any credence given Murdoch's ownership."

Is there evidence of inaccurate reporting at the WSJ, or are you just basing this on the fact that Murdoch also owns Fox News?

I certainly have no evidence, as I mentioned I completely stopped reading it when Murdoch took over. Perhaps he will allow it to maintain it's quality. I've followed him for years, he used to own the South China Morning Post, at one point one of the few english papers available in Hong Kong. His flip flops with respect to the chinese government have certainly convinced me we don't share a lot of values.

I don't really watch TV at all, but occasionally view Fox in airports and such to keep up with what is on TV. I'm amazed that a lot of people actually watch that sort of thing as serious news.

I too am a big Economist fan. I just asked because I'm always looking for good reads - didn't mean to sound like there was nothing else to browse for business news.

The Economist is great, the writing is concise and packed with content. It's tough to get through a lot it on a regular basis.

You should check out the Week magazine too for lighter, quick reading.

http://www.theweek.com/home

bloomberg mostly. I get financial data from Fidelity.

Minds, young one, minds...

I still get it, but they just pile up on my desk. Not as fun to read now that the editorial page is an AEI loudspeaker. Much better content from my reader/tweetdeck.