Investor and blogger Barry Ritholtz argues that the changes at The Wall Street Journal in terms of coverage and story placement make it less relevant to the people who were previously its core audience — investors.
“Quite a difference a few years make.
“A specific article that led to this sad conclusion? The most egregious example (of many) I noticed was this front page headline: New Bank Rules Sink Stocks. This is the sort of silly headline I expect from lesser media outlets, not the Journal. Without getting too philosophical, we know that day-to-day action is mostly nonsense. Selecting a causal factor from the cacophony of news releases, earnings, price data is all but impossible. There is a whole lot of noise, and very little signal. Assigning a definitive causative factor is at best a guessing game, at worst an exercise in futility.”
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