From our mailbag:

Has the kow-towing already begun at the Wall Street Journal? Rupert Murdoch hasn’t officially taken over the WSJ yet, but some of the paper’s staffers seem to be falling into line. On page A6 of today’s WSJ, a story about the “ire” over Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York, says the New York Post told him in a headline to “go to hell.” Actually, it was Thursday’s page 1 in the in the New York DAILY NEWS. As I recall, the post front–page was a self-promotion for the new page 6 mag and an a-jad story headlined “zero tolerance.”

Naturally, we're convinced this was all just an innocent mistake. Surely, the WSJ wouldn't have intentionally credited the Post with a Daily News headline! After all, that would be an extremely bizarre (and easily traceable) breach of journalism ethics. Plus which the Post's own "Zero Tolerance" headline was clearly much, much zippier.