Doug Henwood wrote: > True. It's a great newspaper. Even the tension between the editorial > and news pages is interesting; it's fascinating to speculate why the > monied want clear, honest reporting of the news, but when it comes to > reflecting on the news, they prefer such tortured, dishonest crap. For years I have been attempting to find the metaphor that will communicate this tension to non-readers of the WSJ. What synonym or metaphor for liar will catch up the feel of the editorial pages. The sheer extravagance of those pages is breath-taking. Carrol