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It's been a day of dissatisfaction with our two most Respectable Newspapers over here. While we take a break from the TimesSelect (exclusive) outrage, here are a couple of your responses to the new Wall Street Journal weekend edition:

I thought Dow Jones already had a weekend edition, it was called Barron's, and geeks avoid subscribing so they can get it on Saturday night at newsstands instead of waiting for Monday home delivery. [coughs]

More responses after the jump. Mostly the negative ones, because we are negative people.

The A1 photos was horrific, a snapshot of a chef who felt called to help tsumami victims (an odd lede story in the midst of the hurricane coverage). But the rest was okay. I'm not going to be getting my feature news from the WSJ, frankly. There were hefty financial listings and LOTS of ads from expensive companies. I prefer the weekday version - a nice mildly conservative brain scrubbing in the midst of all this liberal tomfoolery.
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Found the WSJ weekend edition on Saturday morning at one of those really crappy bodega/newsagent combo slivers on 1st ave between 9th and 10th St. So, yeah, it made it to the East Village.[...] It sucked. And I really like the Journal. Just lots of dumb stuff for/by people who should know better than to write about recipes and shit. If they want to make it a lifestyle weekend thing, they should just make it a catalog of stuff to buy instead of trying to get all Homes & Garden (and doing it badly). The whole thing read like a leftover. I don't know why they think readers go soft on weekend and don't want to read regular business stuff.
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there were no shortages of the WSJ saturday edition in the oh-so-tony neighborhood of carneige hill this past weekend... and amidst the peach mojito recipes and the garden club primers diminutive turkish opinion writer melik kaylan snuck a gem of a piece in... the article espoused the merits of placing (albeit carefully) land mines along the border of iraq and syria ... the crux of the argument being that a few maimed limbs and innocent casualties should set those border encroachers straight... how un-P.C... certainly not the light and fluffy reading i expected over my cranberry scone and skim cappuccino, brilliant and good fun nonetheless.
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I did happen to get this, as a weekly subscriber. While I distinctly recall reading it virtually cover to cover — as is my MO — it's seems to have been entirely forgettable. Sorry, I don't recall many details.
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The WSJ Weekend looks a lot like their weekday paper, with a Money & Investing section, an editorial page, all that. There were longer, more involved stories than the daily paper, with an extremely long piece about a guy who went to help out after the tsunami (and did a lot) until the locals finally chased him off. The paper was fine, but didn't seem...special. Those of us who catch up on weekday WSJs on the weekend might look at this paper as a bit if a burden, like the boss calling on Saturday. I expected it to either be more like the Personal Journal, or more reflective and macroeconomic, like Barron's. And by "more like Personal Journal," I mean stories written with a distracting royal "we" voice comparing feather dog beds bought from various catalogs, or breathless articles about the fabulousness of giant fish tanks.

I really want to like the WSJ Weekend, but I'm not sure if it's different enough from the M-F paper to really be necessary.
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I found a copy at Grand Central last night at around 7:41. So it wasn't sold out—or even close to it after 36+ hours on the stands. My report: eh. The article about outlet shopping described an Escada pink chiffon dress that the writer bought for about $800 (seems the WSJ does pay well!). But there wasn't even a photo... just a boring illo. There was also an oh-so insightful glossary of outlet shopping terms (which I can't remember off the top of my head, but I feel like they included such words as "sample." Hmmmm). Who is the readership for this supposed to be?