A Funnier-Than-Usual Journal Gets Snapped Up Early.

It seems someone at The Wall Street Journal really likes a biting new parody of the paper -- likes it enough, in fact, to leave at least one newsstand with no copies remaining for anyone else to buy. The tabloid-format satire, ''My Wall Street Journal,'' mostly sets out to skewer The Journal's new owner, the News Corporation, and its chairman, Rupert Murdoch, with swipes at News properties like Fox News, The New York Post and The Journal itself. It takes aim at other targets, too, including Wall Street firms and traders, and assorted politicians and pundits. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]