Politics | November 13, 2008 | 2 comments

Wall Street Journal Makes Rightward Veer With News Hire

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/12/iwall-street-journali-mak_n_143368.html

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Wall Street Journal has hired Gerard Baker, a self-styled "right-wing curmudgeon" from the Times Of London, as the paper's new deputy editor-in-chief, where he will have oversight of the Journal's news coverage. Calderone says that the move "surprised some staffers because of his strong, right-wing political views." No doubt the surprise wore off after those staffers remembered recent events and said to themselves, "Oh, that's right! The Wall Street Journal was recently acquired by Rupert Murdoch after a protracted battle with the hopeless Bancroft family!"
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2 comments // Wall Street Journal Makes Rightward Veer With News Hire

  • huntre
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      huntre  

    • The "Journal" has been leaning to the Right for quite some time now, from what I've read.
      Of course, they wouldn't say that about themselves.

    • 3 years ago
  • uppityprogressive
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      uppityprogressive  

    • Despite Murdoch's claim to protect content integrity the Journal's editorial board quoted in an online article for the New Zealand Herald on August 3, 2007 -

      "We know enough about capitalism to know that there is no separating ownership and control."

      Capitalism, an economic system based on competition, ironically has become a system of mergers and conglomerates as businesses no longer find it financially profitably to compete but to merge or sell out.

      The Journal has sought to accept its sealed fate and make the best of their owner. However, the silent and forced surrender does not quiet the concerns the long-term affect bids like these will have for the future of the news and journalist.
      http://press-freedom.suite101.com/article.cfm/murdoch_buys_wsj_for_65_billion

    • 3 years ago
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