Tim Dyson tears the Wall Street Journal a new one for having a limp tech supplement in a recent edition, and in doing so makes a wider point about the need for journalism in some quarters to raise its game:

   

Let’s assume that the readership of the Journal is the investment community for now. If I were a fund manager, I’d hope I already knew the stuff in the Gates interview or the E-commerce article. Take the following question posed to Billg: "When are you going to ship the new Vista Operating System?" I don’t think I need to tell you that he said we’re on track to ship it in January. I have to say that it’s content like this that is getting traditional media into trouble.

Well said.

I also like the way he knows Bill Gates well enough to refer to him by his email address prefix (Billg)…

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