{"id":1199,"date":"2008-02-28T09:45:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T14:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2008-02-28T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T14:45:49","slug":"wsj-jumps-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2008\/02\/28\/wsj-jumps-the-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ jumps the shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> for years, before it was online, in color, or ad-supported.  It&#8217;s been fascinating to watch this grand old paper change with the times, and I&#8217;ve not yet had any negative reactions to the things it&#8217;s had to do to stay competitive.  <\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupert_Murdoch\">new man<\/a> in charge at the <em>Journal <\/em>now, and I got my first real taste of the new rule this morning when I went to wsj.com for the first time.  There, before I even hit any content, was a full-page, click-through Flash ad from HP.  Ugh.  It feels like the beginning of the end, but in reality, the writing&#8217;s been on the wall for a long time now.  There&#8217;s no such thing as a free lunch, and if Rupert wants the <em>Journal <\/em>to ditch paid registration, it&#8217;s full-page ads (and worse) from here on out.  I just wish there were a better way to monetize these things&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading The Wall Street Journal for years, before it was online, in color, or ad-supported. It&#8217;s been fascinating to watch this grand old paper change with the times, and I&#8217;ve not yet had any negative reactions to the things it&#8217;s had to do to stay competitive. But there&#8217;s a new man in charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-jl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}