This Journal headline is irritating:
Hard Times Offer a Chance To Overcome Protectionism
Some of us fervently hope that the hard times offer a chance to overcome free-tradeism. What’s the WSJ doing with a slanted headline like that? Leave that for the editorial page.
And the story is just poorly cobbled together, to boot.
Ryan Chittum is a former Wall Street Journal reporter, and deputy editor of The Audit, CJR’s business section. If you see notable business journalism, give him a heads-up at rc2538@columbia.edu. Follow him on Twitter at @ryanchittum.