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AMERICAblog: Murdoch broke 'the letter and the spirit' of WSJ agreement

  • scooter in brooklyn · 1 year ago
    really. no one could have predicted this.
  • PeteWa · 1 year ago
    This would only be a shock to the trolls, but seeing as how they won't understand what they read, there will be no shock for those knuckle draggers either.
  • bulldog909 · 1 year ago
    So, Murdoch owns it. He paid for it. Why shouldn't he be able to set the editorial tone?
  • scooter in brooklyn · 1 year ago
    umm. because it was a condition of the sale. but of course, as a republican, one can't really expect him to actually live up to his agreements.
  • PeteWa · 1 year ago
    You'd think that James Guckert had better things to do than drag his fat, bald ass over to this site to troll... lol
  • scooter in brooklyn · 1 year ago
    LOL
  • KerrynowCampau · 1 year ago
    "You'd think that James Guckert had better things to do than drag his fat, bald ass over to this site to troll... lol"

    And totally proved what you wrote in the post below his.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    On the bright side, the WSJ has been around far too long. This is an opportunity for an enterprizing editorial staff to come up with a fresh daily newspaper that specializes in economic reporting.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    The Bancrofts can't be that dumb.

    They knew that King Rupert would turn WSJ into the Fox Street Journal and are just feigning outrage to save face.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    Who gives a shit about some yellow rag? What are they gonna print, that investors are sulking because Bernanke only lowered the fed rate 1/4% and probably will leave it at 2% for the rest of the year to "see if inflation slows" while jobs continue to be lost, homes foreclosed, gas prices keep rising, and people dying from lack of health care?

    Who gives a shit about these greedy SOBs?
  • jr · 1 year ago
    "why don't they like my idea to turn the WSJ into a daily version of the Weekly Standard?"-carpetbagger Rupert
  • mike31c · 1 year ago
    Not sure as to why people are surprised? The younger people of the Bancroft family was only concerned about their "inheritance" and not so much for their legacy that was known as the Wall Street Journal.

    Message to the Bancroft Family: You got what you deserved so stop whining.

    Personally, I used to read the paper every day @ school. Now, I just read it if someone leaves it in the "recycle" newspaper pile @ my local coffee shop. Frankly, most of their editorial crap is just that: Crap...

    Now I just listen to the WSJ daily podcasts.
  • ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago
    Tomorrow is the five year anniversary of the day Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in front of the banner that read "Mission Accomplished" and said, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
  • shanobama · 1 year ago
    Considering the FOX confusion over Stephen Douglas being Frederick Douglas, the WSJ can only go downhill from now on.
  • Bluestocking · 1 year ago
    Good grief! One would have thought that the Bancroft family might have done at least a minimal amount of research on the person whom they were dealing with *before* handing over the keys to the kingdom so that they would know what they were getting into...but it certainly doesn't look that way, does it?
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    Are any of us actually surprised that this trash mogul would lie or misrepresent his intentions?

    The Bancroft family are simply disgraceful! They most certainly knew what would happen, but what galls me most is that they must have PLANNED their reactions to the inevitable change of tenor in the Journal. I guess the money was too much for them to pass up, but PLEASE, do you really think they didn't know about this BEFORE they sold the paper?

    This country (and its media) is going down the tubes faster than I had ever thought possible.
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  • paulbe · 1 year ago
    "Murdoch Press" has long been synonymous with trash journalism, hatchet jobs, sucking up to American interests, and just plain lying here in Australia
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Here's an interesting petition that will go nowhere; trying to get congress not to help "home flippers":

    http://www.angryrenter.com/
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Who'd a thunk it? Letting go an editor with deep roots in the 20th century. Maybe they should have sent him to rehab first?