Uh have you read their commentary/opinions? Half the time they come off as if they're trolling.

I'm sure at one point they were a thinking man's newspaper. At this point they're just fan service for people who have drunk the koolaid but can't stomach Fox's mass market approach.

To be fair the WSJ has always had some pretty outlandish opinion pieces. The tradition was that these were separate to the news reporting and the news reporting was untouched by them. But now it's in Murdoch stable. Sad.

He started in 2007. The date when you consider it utterly destroyed is up to the reader.