Well first, and I mean this with minimal disrespect, but you clearly have a hero worship thing going here (see your last sentence).  So you really have a bias of your own.<p>On your point, there are still people on the floor if you don't believe me turn on CNBC and you can see them.  But even in a virtual floor it isn't like people don't keep in contact.  The market lives and dies by social interactions and it always has.  That's why the guy on his computer using e*trade isn't as effective as the guy in the brokerage house.<p>The point still remains that every news institution I can find reported this the same way (Dow drops because of Bank Regulation).  So using it to attack the WSJ individually is ridiculous.