Newspaper

After last night’s entry mentioning the WSJ, I’ve gotten a couple of emails from folks questioning that paper in light of the WSJ’s editorial position on the coming war in Iraq. My response is that the WSJ is one of the best newspapers out there. I obviously don’t read it for political news — I would be reading the NY Times or Washington Post if I wanted that angle — and while I typically disagree with the editorial page (it’s fairly conservative), I don’t let that hinder my love of the rest of the paper. I’ve been reading the Wall Street Journal ever since high school, and have always very much liked it reportage. It looks at business and cultural trends from a sociological perspective that I find absolutely fascinating. It’s not for everyone, but it’s a great paper.

Speaking of newspapers, I resubscribed yesterday to the Press-Citizen. After not getting the local paper for a year, I’ve been missing a lot of the university news that they would print. It’s a good place to find out what’s going on with the university. It’s a big enough school (30,000 students) that you need the press to keep track of everything that’s going on.

There are three daily newspapers in this town, but the P-C is really the one to get. The Daily Iowan of course is geared towards the students, and the Iowa City Gazette hasn’t made the competitive inroads they hoped to when they launched a few years back.

As an aside, I upgraded to Movable Type 2.63, and it looks like everything went okay. It’s a fairly easy system to install and is very slick once you get it up and running. My only complaint is that the documentation needs a rewrite — better organization and more user friendly.