WSJ in a hen basket

I was worried when Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal this summer (see related article here), a newspaper I covet for global news and who I've trusted for many years. This is a man who owns Fox News for pete's sake.. and we all know what fluff they spew. He actually owns many news sources around the world which could play like a bad movie should he wish to create and/or control such news.

Slowly my paper began to change. In addition to seeing some articles that looked too tabloidish for the 'old' WSJ, I started to see more ads and my paper started to get thicker. There were also more color photographs where none were needed before to draw attention to various articles.

On October 21st, a clueless writer was revealed.. In the 'What's News' section of the front page, a snippet read like this:

Some 1,500 dogs in China
bred for their fur died after eat-
ing feed tainted with the chemi-
cal that contaminated milk, A12

Now.. I'm familiar as likely all WSJ readers and at least 1/2 of the world's population are that the chemical recently identified for contaminating milk in China is Melamine. I'm also aware that there are a myriad of chemicals that could contaminate milk. I'm sure the writer was just trying to make the link, but failing to recognize that we as informed readers could make the same link quickly.. is annoying and poorly executed.

Shouldn't it have read like this?

1,500 dogs in China
bred for their fur died after eat-
ing feed tainted with the chemi-
cal Melamine, A12