OMG! WSJ Hires Teague

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Joe Dougherty
Lettie Teague to alternate with Jay McInerney in WSJ weekly wine column. Guess they didn't want it to get too too highbrow.

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originally posted by scottreiner:
makes sense. wsj has imploded quality wise since murdoch bought in...
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Oh, I'm not sure that Jay + Lettie doesn't about balance out the wine where it was in the old days.
 
Well, you could say with Alice over at the Wall Street Journal Magazine and the new duo over there, we are either a dream team or one fit for the pyschiatric ward.
 
It could just as easily have been Ruth Reichl.

I understand the rationale behind the current lineup. MacInerney's got a way with words and offers a literary profile that adds respect to the paper. Lettie plays to the "I'm into wine but I don't really have time to learn about it" crowd. Overall it's an improvement over the previous regime. Not perfect, but not as one-size-fits-all as before.

-Eden (would have preferred Matt Kramer)
 
New column from Lettie here.

When did the style of argument that assumes the attack before your opponents have made it become so common? It's become Parker's favorite, but it has a Palin/Diane Teitelbaum feeling to it, too. Also the ad hominem against the straw men.

It's all so ill tempered and self-justifying that it gives me the willies.
 
To be fair, the argument to which she's responding has been made more than once, and explicitly. Not that I like the column.
 
originally posted by Thor:
To be fair, the argument to which she's responding has been made more than once, and explicitly. Not that I like the column.
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Sure, there's a real argument.

But why do they hate our freedom?
 
God Bless Lettie for touting those wines! The more people who read her column the fewer people are competing with me for the good wines.
 
I love that Jay and Lettie share an email address! I guess Rupert's really keeping costs down over at the WSJ! And what an etching!
 
Has anyone read McIrney's Book, "A Hedonist in the Cellar?" It's kind of absurd. He might as well entitled it, "Drinking Wine for Stupidly Rich People". He talks about how Cheval Blanc is his favorite wine, and really, when he can he prefers to drink the '61. There's a whole chapter on differentiating between the various high end Guigal stuff. When he talks about Gruner it's F.X. Pichler and Knoll.
It's not a bad book, I just feel the same way about it I feel about the Wine Advocate (I think, this month's issue) writing about DRC.

Okay, it's great that we're writing about them, but who the hell in their life is actually going to be able to drink this wine at all, let alone on a regular basis? Shouldn't we get exited about stuff that's actually available to the average consumer wine that lives and circulates around the masses.

I mean, I'm young and poor, so take that as my bias. I suppose I have my book to write now.
 
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