remember that the primary job of WSJ writers is to write copy that will garner readers, and therefore advertising & subscription revenue... this is a GREAT article to put up now, as there are a large number of people interested in WaMu in the past two weeks, there's a longstanding "us vs. them" mentality for small investors going up against the whales in the open market, plus the timing of the insider trading crackdown of recent.
I don't read anything into it other than it's a good article to sell newspapers with.