If Murdoch buys the WSJ & the FT is sensible, they'll poach WSJ subscribers by doing ... nothing. Sure, they may not get as many as if they wooed a 100 or 200 WSJ staffers, but you forget that bringing all these people on will require a bigger paper for all of them to write in. I'd rather have the FT's kitschy photos, sparse ads and concise than the relative bloat that is the WSJ.

And bring on Mossberg for half a mil, when Paul Taylor does a perfectly fine job already? Do you think the FT is crazy? I like Mossberg and his Mac-headedness, but I'm tired of journalists turning into their own brands. Yes, the FT would be wise to bring on a few people at reasonable cost to shore up their reporting, but hopefully they won't mess too much with what's already a bloody good paper. And it's pink (salmon-pink if you must), not peach!