Rating  - Check your delivery method !
The paper is great, you don't need me to tell you that. The problem starts with delivery, if you live in an area with carrier delivery, AND your carrier isn't a total flake you can expect your paper each and every morning. That's when I like my WSJ, I can grab it and jump in the car and read it while I should be working. If your carrier is a flake your paper will show up late, if at all. My last carrier left me to wonder where the last three issues ended up. If you're in an area not served by a carrier the paper with me delivered via USPS, for me that means about 3pm, at that point the paper is only good for starting fires.
Rating - Price review
The journal is great. All the reviews state that. We don't need another redundant review.
But.
On the Wall Street Journal site, you can order a subscription for less than half the cost of the $215 Amazon charges.
Merry Xmas.
Rating - Among the Best
"The Wall Street Journal" is one of the most-in-depth business journals available. It is an interesting blend of current events and insightful analysis of prevailing and sometimes not so apparent trends. The quality of reporting is generally balanced and professional.
Although every newspaper has a political orientation of one sort or the other, the Wall Street Journal news reporting is largely free of politics, making it a good source of unbiased news and information for most people. However, its editorial section is conservative, although thankfully the editorial section is a tiny portion of the whole magazine.
The journal has a lot of insightful business news that every manager at any level should find useful. The reporters cover the various topics in great detail and with knowledgeable perspective from all sides. They are not afraid to cover corporate transgression with rigour and honesty.
The journal also covers various other topics such as personal finance, special reports, business profiles, interviews, commentary, market and news of note for management personnel.
Rating - must be known to be loved
Question: Is there a better American English-language daily anywhere?
Answer: no.
The Times (of London) is a great and venerable paper, but not easily available in the US and focused on a different reality.
The New York Times is an institution in its own right, better than WSJ on foreign affairs, and a much more complete paper.
But the Wall Street Journal is as good as it gets for a daily newspaper reader in this country with a business bent, an appreciation for an unfailingly high standard of writing and editing, and no particular interest in 'soft' topics or the New York cultural scene.
This is one very crisp paper. The last time an article got too wordy was back in 1967 and that writer's body was never found.
Just kidding. But it would be a convenient myth for explaining WSJ's disciplined tone.
In the 'Personal Journal' section, I routinely find articles that reshape some aspect of my personal (usually financial) life and habits.
Sports news is heady and analytical. For example, as I write this review we are in the thick of the American and National League Championship Series. Today's reportage does not tell me who won and lost last night and why. Instead, the 'On Sports' column is called 'Base Instincts' and explains why so many third base coaches end up as managers. In short, apart from the players they are the most important guy on the field.
Across the page, the 'By the Numbers' column is called 'Praising Pitcher's Parks'. It asks why teams that play in pitcher-friendly parks do so well in October.
As of this moment, I still don't know who won last night. But I know a lot more about the game of baseball.
Best of all, you can generally avoid the pricey subscription if you're willing to use frequent flyer miles to subscribe.
One memorably off-kilter film moment had its protagonist emerging from his tent and declaiming, 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning.'
'Never smelled napalm and don't hanker after the carnage. But I can say that the sight of my Journal in the driveway every morning in its little blue bag is an oddly comforting experience.
Buy it.
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