WSJ's Melinda Beck Uses New Eastwood Movie to Highlight Old Study News

Clint Eastwood's new movie, Hereafter, the profile of a psychic (Matt Damon), is evidently an excuse for the WSJ to feature an ongoing near-death study that was publicized 2 years ago. While the WSJ article, written by Melinda Beck, is most certainly not news, it is generating lively reader comments and a bunch of Facebook thumbs-up "likes."

These are the evident new priorities of the world's leading business and financial newspaper. Bravo. I'll take my hypercarbic, hypoxic afterlife show now.

While in shower, actor Matt Damon telepathically convinces reporter Melinda Beck to write movie-promoting fluff piece. (Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.)