The Wall Street Journal 'Journal Community' Depicts Obama With Hitler Mustache

The Wall Street Journal's Journal Community page is "...a marketplace of ideas for The Wall Street Journal readers," where you "interact with guest experts and Journal reporters in rich conversations." This marketplace of ideas includes an Impeach Obama group depicting President Obama with a Hitler mustache (seen at left).

An email to the moderator of the community pages inquiring about the image, which has been up for weeks, was not immediately returned.

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Wall Street Journal Steps Off The New York Times

The Great Newspaper War of the 0'10 might be near a truce. The Wall Street Journal has stopped dropping their newspapers on top of The New York Times in Starbucks and other locations on the Upper East Side.

After introducing their Greater New York section, The Wall Street Journal tried their best to put the paper in your hands by covering The Times where ever they could.

That has stopped, but as seen in the photo top right, now The New York Observer and USA Today will have to suffer that fate, at least as witnessed in Starbucks.

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Is The Wall Street Journal's Cut Rate Advertising Pricing Illegal?

Rueters reported last week that The Wall Street Journal: "is offering some businesses firesale prices for full-page ads in its highly anticipated New York edition to seduce advertisers away from The New York Times."

This sounds similar to the fight between the SF Weekly and San Francisco Bay Guardian in The Great West Coast Newspaper War.

In that case a San Francisco jury found the SF Weekly guilty of: "lowering the costs of its advertising space with the intent of putting its rival out of business." They were ordered to pay $21 million in damages.

Previously on The New York City Newspaper Wars

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Shots Fired: New York Newspaper Wars Heat Up And Wall Street Journal Plays Dirty

The Wall Street Journal hit the switch on their "Greater New York" section at 12am on Monday morning. Hamilton Nolan at Gawker matter-of-factly wrote: Let the Newspaper War Begin.

NYC The Blog would like to report it has, and The New York Times has lost their first stronghold.

The WSJ is taking all steps necessary in their quest for market share, including obscuring the competition in Starbucks locations throughout Manhattan. Below, see photographic evidence from two separate Starbucks location on the Upper East Side, displaying The WSJ strategically placed on top of and all over The NYT.

Click through for closer inspection, and notice the stands featuring The WSJ front and center are branded for The Times! Shots fired Clark Hoyt? Indeed.

Wall Street Journal Launches New York Metro Paper Online

The well reported battle between The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for the hearts and minds news beat in metro New York City arrived quietly last night at around 12am, when the online edition of the WSJ's new paper hit l'internets at http://wsj.com/ny. The twitter feed is at @WSJNY.  

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