If somebody pulls together the $60 billion necessary to buy News Corp, Fox News would almost assuredly stay intact, as it is highly profitable. News Corp is a TV and entertainment company: their print divisions make up a small share of their profits, though they do provide people to be interviewed.
That said, I’m enjoying the way this scandal has revealed the highly paid staff of Fox News and the WSJ to be utterly compliant lickspittles. Their apologistics are even more tortured than their usual brown-nosing of the GOP. Heck, the WSJ’s spittle-flecked editorial page seems to think that criminal bribery should be protected by the First Amendment. See also Snowboarder Bo’s link, where Fox News hosts draw a modern conservative parallel between Citicorp --a victim of criminal hacking-- and News Corp – a perpetrator of the same. Their gullible audience can’t tell the difference! Or check out Bill O’Reilly’s deafening silence on the matter, never mind his past blustery calls for an FBI investigation of the hacking into Sarah Palin’s email. I guess it’s ok if you work for Rupert.
The editorial board has a meeting, usually daily, and there are motions and votes on what to editorialize about and what position to take. Then the editorial opinion is assigned to an editor to get written. Usually the opinion page editor, but anyone can write it. Then it is circulated and okay’d by the editors who voted in favor. Back in the day I used to be an opinion page editor and that is how we did it.
On a similar note, I think we should stop generalizing about pedophiles. After all, generalizations are bad. If only Lochdale would stop generalizing about “liberals”. But then again, only one side of the spectrum is actually expected to be consistent.
Yup, 'cuz the WSJ editorial board had to be “influenced by Murdock (sic)” to write a self-serving editorial that tries to defend the WSJ’s reputation. I can’t even imagining them being self-serving without orders from above! It just wouldn’t happen!
ETA: Just do be clear, I’m not saying they don’t take orders from Murdoch; I’m saying it really wouldn’t be necessary in this case, they’d be writing about the same thing either way.
Normally I think that revelling in the sordid details of someone else’s humilliation is a very low thing to do, and that the inevitable crowd of reporters sticking their microphones in someone’s face rather resembles a swarm of flies that have found fresh dung heap.
In the case of tabloids, however, I consider turnabout to be fair play. Karma, pure and simple.