"Chinese" spies hack Journal's cred

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When I came across this story Tuesday, I wondered why it wasn't getting more play. "Computer spies" had broken into "the Defense Department's costliest project ever." The attacks, which "appear to have originated in China," allowed the hackers to "copy and siphon off several terabytes of data." And the infiltration came on the heels of the revelation that "computers used to control the U.S. electrical-distribution system, as well as other infrastructure, have also been infiltrated by spies abroad.

Well, for all my concern, I never did my due diligence. I didn't follow up with the New York Times, the Washington Post, or even a web search. Luckily, Slate's Jack Shafer did. He points out that the only information the intruders accessed concerned maintenance details about the planes. He also links to the NYT, which pisses all over the Journal, to borrow Jack's language. The Washington Post does too, by the way.

What is Murdoch's model for the WSJ? The Washington Times? Or maybe The New York Post?