“Why?” Because seeing someone in a stipple portrait once persuasively suggested that they had been featured in the WSJ, a status of esteem for some people. And they just wrecked that for all future profiles *and all previous ones.*
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I’m not opposed to dynamiting status hierarchies in principle, but I’m extremely surprised that the WSJ would choose to do it over a feature that probably 1% of their readership will use.
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You *think* they're doing it with a computer... but remember, this is a newspaper we're talking about here.pic.twitter.com/DcnQZO5Wx9
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I know a hedge fund type who paid the WSJ’s literal artist to draw him one. Ouch.
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They are probably getting a ton of subs though
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Is there a link to try it out?
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There not the only ones ... SNL did it for a sponsorship dinner.pic.twitter.com/5GTlPhU4Uq
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They should have called it the WSJx Portrait. People that know know that 'TED Speaker' and 'Tedx Speaker' mean different things right?
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Related: 'International Keynote Speakers and Thought Leaders', (their words), with LinkedIn profiles containing pictures of themselves standing in front of the 'x' of 'TEDx'
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