WSJ JOURNALISTS WALK OUT IN PROTEST

This made AOL's bloggingstocks and comes from Romenesko at Poynter. Here's a bit of what the WSJ journalists had to say:

Newspaper Guild release
June 28, 2007 11:00 A.M.
A statement from Wall Street Journal reporters:

Wall Street Journal reporters across the country chose not to show up to work this morning.

We did so for two reasons.

First, The Wall Street Journal's long tradition of independence, which has been the hallmark of our news coverage for decades, is threatened today. We, along with hundreds of other Dow Jones employees represented by the Independent Association of Publishers' Employees, want to demonstrate our conviction that the Journal’s editorial integrity depends on an owner committed to journalistic independence.