In other words, the Journal is becoming more of a general interest paper like The New York Times.

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Why do we consider the integrity of business and financial journalism to be even more important than for many forms of general-interest news?

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It was this group that redefined American politics in the 1980s, and this group that will come to the fore during the general election, as ordinary people take more interest in politics.

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But in general, when your death is of more interest to family, friends, colleagues and your immediate community, the text of an obit is written by the loved ones themselves, who make no pretense of (and have to reason to aspire to) objectivity.

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"In general the more you paid for a gadget the more interest it will be to street robbers, " said a spokesman.

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Quora also skews more tech-centric than ChaCha, which remains solidly general interest.

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And this makes sense, because in general, the middle class are more dependent on things like mortgage interest and state and local tax deductions than their wealthy brethren, and the elimination of those deductions would have punished those taxpayers to a greater extent than they would have benefited from the 20% reduction in their tax rate.

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Mr. Mathur, SIAM's director general, said the authorities need to do a "lot more" to encourage commercial banks to cut interest rates to help revive car sales.

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