I don’t know. You’re citing one case. Before Murdoch the WSJ was very right of center, and they didn’t seem to change afterwards, and I can’t think of how they could go further right and maintain their readership, and I would not have expected a left turn.
Just in the interest of fighting a misconception, schadenfreude is NOT " a guilty pleasure". It is the act of taking pleasure in someone else’s discomfort. Any guilt that stems from that pleasure is entirely separate from the concept.
He’s right, you know.
–Hal Briston: Property of Rupert Murdoch since 2007.
Aaand I have a new sig line!
Ok, then I got a shitload of schadenfreude out of this one.
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Awww, I thought it was going to be “Property of Rupert Murdoch since 2007” 
This meteoric fall is certainly fun and satisfying. I can only dream that it leads to the liquidation of FOX. I’d like to see MSNBC buy up the remains of FOX News and scatter them hither and yon. Let Bill O’Reilly have to beg Rachel Maddow for work.
He’s right, you know.
–Hal Briston: Property of Rupert Murdoch since 2007.
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Sheep worrier.
Nor will any of his viewers.
Me, too!
I beg to differ.
Fucking coward didn’t even have the balls to put his name to that piece of crap.
The “Right” aren’t the only people who read the WSJ. :rolleyes: Liberals/Democrats read the WSJ to get a balanced view of the news. Too bad the “Right” can’t be as, dare I say it?, Fair and Balanced.
It’s standard protocol for a newspaper’s editorial (as opposed to an op-ed column) to be unsigned. It’s “the voice of the newspaper”, and is in all probability written by committee, or the entire editorial board.
This doesn’t change the self-serving and mealy-mouthed nature of the article itself, but it’s not out of cowardice that it’s unsigned.
EXCELLENT! Then I can officially blame EVERY member of the WSJ Editorial Board, and reiterate my divergence with Lochdale’s absurd notion that they haven’t been influenced by Murdcock.
I would even encourage it.
Of course, a number of people are now out of his employ, and likely not the last to feel the axe’s steely bite…
The whistleblowing reporter who was involved in the initial break of the story was found dead earlier today.
Don’t wish to speculate, but odd timing in any event. The rumor (perhaps unfounded) is that he had a drug and alcohol problem.
I’m pretty right-wing, at least by UK standard, and I’m fucking loving Murdoch getting what’s coming to him. It has nothing to do with political views, and everything to do with honesty.
That’s why I said they couldn’t go further right without losing their readership. The WSJ did provide a balance to some other sources, but they were definitely right of center. They often seemed further away from center by publishing a lot of extremely conservative opinion.
Hey speaking of Rupert Murdoch and honesty, did you see what Fox did the other night?
The Most Incredible Thing Fox News Has Ever Done
To sum up: News Corp. is really the victim in this whole hacking scandal thing.
There’s video at that link, and you can read more at newshounds if you want to see how Murdoch is using his media channels to try and re-spin this whole thing.
Oh yeah, plus there’s that whole dead guy thing that John DiFool brought up already.
Is it just me or is the “fired for drug and alcohol problems and then killed himself because he was despondent” rationale just a bit too pat (and too movie-like)?
I know it’s the Pit, but for a bit of levity. . .
Murdoch’s Sun hacked, Headline read Murdoch’s “Body Discovered”.
LMAO!
Murdoch is going down like Ari Gold on Entourage last season.
Which reminds me, I gotta order HBO. Does Murdoch have any connection to HBO?
Shayna, more like VVC, since someone is dead now.
Thus I may feel a twinge of guilt at my enjoyment of the trainwreck, in awareness of the jobs lost and the institutions tarnished – but I need not feel too bad at all that I want to see the big parties who profited from this mess be made to squirm… mind you, I do not wish for their ruin, but just to see them have to bow their heads. They got too filled with hubris.
If in the process they proceed to remind the people in the Inquiry Committee of their own glass roofs, well, that’s a bonus benefit, fair enough.