WSJ on Sears
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"Sears Suffers as It Skimps on Stores" is the headline over a news article on the front of the marketplace section of today's Wall Street Journal.

From the article: "Mr. Lampert, who serves as company chairman and whose ESL Investments Inc. controls more than 60% of Sears shares, hasn't given a media interview in more than three years."

That's not accurate. The March 4, 2009 Wall Street Journal carried a column by Holman W. Jenkins Jr., a Wall Street Journal staffer, that includes the words, "Mr. Lampert tells me," along with quotes from Mr. Lampert. March 2009 is less than three years ago. It'd be one thing if the Journal missed an interview with some obscure publication. But this was an interview that Mr. Lampert gave to the Wall Street Journal.

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WSJ on Sears
futureofcapitalism.com

"Sears Suffers as It Skimps on Stores" is the headline over a news article on the front of the marketplace section of today's Wall Street Journal.

From the article: "Mr. Lampert, who serves as company chairman and whose ESL Investments Inc. controls more than 60% of Sears shares, hasn't given a media interview in more than three years."

That's not accurate. The March 4, 2009 Wall Street Journal carried a column by Holman W. Jenkins Jr., a Wall Street Journal staffer, that includes the words, "Mr. Lampert tells me," along with quotes from Mr. Lampert. March 2009 is less than three years ago. It'd be one thing if the Journal missed an interview with some obscure publication. But this was an interview that Mr. Lampert gave to the Wall Street Journal.

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