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CJR writes up the new WSJ. See also: “From the archives,” “How to build your own noise machine at home,” “permanentrepublicanmajority.tar.gz.”

It’s starting to seem like Obama understands very well how to disassemble the GOP’s famously disciplined “noise machine,” which amounted to little—maybe nothing—more than an ad-hoc monopoly on a speaking like a sovereign. Exhibit A: the Murdoch-owned NY Post (Hurt, “Prez Zings GOP Foe in a $timulating Talk,” 23 Jan ’09) tries to find its [...]

WSJ publishes a commonsensical defense of “piracy” by Lessig, who bridles: Sorry to disappoint, but my new book, Remix, is not “A Defense of Piracy,” whatever the Wall Street Journal’s headline writers may think. Note to Larry: “Piracy” is defined by the Content Cartels, not by WSJ headline writers—and, according to the CCs, you’re defending [...]

Amy Chozick’s 1400-word “Too Fit to Be President?” (WSJ, 1 Aug ’08) is based on a Yahoo[“!”] message board thread, “Is Obama Too Skinny to Be President?” with a total of five messages (totaling 179 words); two of them (the first dated 15 July) are from Chozick herself (10k .zip of the Google-cached message board [...]