A departing reporter for the Wall Street Journal has delivered an implicit rebuke to Rupert Murdoch's new régime at the paper-and its aversion to long-form journalism. In his farewell note, veteran James Bandler says his former editors "understood that great Journal stories-whether complex corporate probes or powerful narratives-can take weeks, if not months of reporting time." For another defense of the business newspaper's traditions, read the excellent comment by 'medman' in response to yesterday's Gawker article, Civil War At The Wall Street Journal.