The Wall Street Journal, which jiggered with its headline fonts and put a little color on its front page, tells me that “color graphics and new navigational tools convey extra information swiftly.” Those tools, I am told, will help me “navigate through the paper quickly.” I see an index, a reefer box and and the usual “What’s News” column. Publisher Peter R. Kann wrote: “I think these changes are the most exciting in the more than 35 years I’ve been associated with the Wall Street Journal.” That’s kind of sad. Incidentally, on that historic front page Tuesday was a boldface lead-in that would really get the guys in the composing room laughing, if there were still a composing room.
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