This morning when I posted this item, you could read the entire WSJ article without having to register or sign in.

Now you seem to get only a couple of paragraphs. Maybe they didn’t like my backhanded compliment about their news compared to their editorials. 🙂

The article is now listed as subscriber content. If this is really the new model for accessing the WSJ on the internet, then I won’t have to feel guilty linking to them anymore. I just won’t do it.

I have sort of boycotted such practices in the past. I am hoping that sites that take this attitude measure how many hits they get on the preview and how few follow-ups they get to the subscriber only content.

This is the usual battle over price between the seller and the buyer. I don’t know which side is going to prevail, but I am going to hold out as long as I can. I’ve pretty much done without the WSJ for close to 67 years. I can probably hold out a little longer.

Follow this link to the AP version of the news story. You get much of what the WSJ reported in this version of the story.

Follow this link to an article in the Wall Street Journal that explains the issue with the sticking gas pedal.

Beginning in October last year, Toyota became aware of sticking accelerator pedals in the U.S. and Canada. The company realized that the material used in the gas pedals was the same as in Europe, prompting last week’s U.S. recall, according to Toyota’s submission to NHTSA.

While the editorials in the WSJ are obviously biased and penned by ignoramuses, I find the news stories usually to be amazingly bias free.  This seems to be a news story and not an editorial.