Posted on 11/15/2007 7:02:47 AM PST by abb
It's official. Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal's owner-in-waiting, is going to war against the New York Times and its controlling family, the Sulzbergers. He's repeatedly stated his intention to push the Journal even further into politics, culture and national affairs—editorial territory long dominated by the Old Gray Lady. But Murdoch wasn't always gunning to topple the Times. In fact, he actually envisioned himself as the paper's owner.
It's hard to imagine Murdoch, long considered a political conservative, ever owning the Times. Over the years the paper has been Murdoch's foil and foe, criticized regularly by his New York Post and Fox News Channel for its coverage and liberal editorial page. Still, Murdoch disclosed his surprising, albeit fleeting, interest this week while traveling in his native Australia where his U.S.-based media conglomerate News Corp. owns newspapers nationwide. In an interview, with one his favorite employees, syndicated financial columnist Terry McCrann, Murdoch confessed that he'd "thought about" acquiring the Times.
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Why Murdoch would disclose his recent infatuation with the Times is unclear, especially if he's now ruled out a takeover attempt. One motivation might have been simply psy-ops—military argot for psychological warfare. In short, the wily mogul may be trying to rattle New York Times Co. chairman and newspaper publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. According to a pivotally situated Times employee , the mogul wrote a personal note to Sulzberger on or around the day that he won the battle for Dow Jones. "Let the war begin," the note read, according to this source, who requested anonymity in discussing a sensitive topic.
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Oh, so that's what that means. < |:/~
Rupert Murdoch owning the Slimes would still not be enough to counteract the left wing bias of the MSM.
OK rupe, take’em out.
The passenger pigeon vs the Dodo to see who will go extinct first.
Earlier this fall I was surveyed by phone re using the WSJ Online if the fees were dropped.
I said yes if Ruppert thinned out the herd of liberals still at the WSJ. That brought out a little chuckle from the person doing the survey.
Yesterday I read that he may just do that to reach millions of us for the ad $’s.
If he does, that will be another critical wound for the NY Slimes.
Why Murdoch would disclose his recent infatuation with the Times is unclear, especially if he's now ruled out a takeover attempt.
Allow me to clear up this matter. Rupert just wants Pinch to do the decent thing and bury the corpse of the old grey lady.
The elite mediot maggot owners of ABCNNBCBS, the Compost and owners/publishers of the other major dinosaur fishwraps are the modern day, Norman Bates. They are trying to keep the corpses alive by refusing to admit that they are dead and to bury them.
Buy my Dinosaur Fishwrap stock. The old gray lady is just fine!
Remember all that bellyaching about how Murdoch and News Corp (NWS) were going to destroy the Journal? Remember those fears that if the Bancrofts caved, the Journal's best reporters would bolt, leaving Murdoch with a newsroom filled with interns? Well, it's early yet, but the predicted exodus has yet to begin.Norman Bates: Now mother, I’m going to uh, bring something up...
Norman Bates’ Mother: Haha... I am sorry, boy, but you do manage to look ludicrous when you give me orders.
Norman Bates: Please, mother.
Norman Bates’ Mother: No! I will not hide in the fruit cellar! Ha! You think I’m fruity, huh? I’m staying right here. This is my room and noone will drag me out of it, least of all my big, bold son!
Norman Bates: They’ll come now, mother! He came after the girl and now someone will come after him. Please mother, it’s just for a few days, just for a few days so they won’t find you!
Norman Bates’ Mother: ‘Just for a few days’? In that dark, dank fruit cellar? No! You hid me there once boy, and you’ll not do it again, not ever again, now get out! I told you to get out, boy.
Norman Bates: I’ll carry you, mother.
Norman Bates’ Mother: Norman! What do you think you’re doing? Don’t you touch me, don’t! NORMAN! Put me down, put me down, I can walk on my own...
Thanks for recycling the Pyscho images.
This news has to be driving the elite mediot maggots even more insane.
Reality is the vicious bitch that keeps biting the elite mediot maggots of the NY Slimes:
“If any news organization is in a position to woo reporters away from the Journal, it’s the Times, so the struggles here reveal a few things:
Despite their bellyaching, the Journal’s top reporters are happy
Murdoch’s not an idiot
Murdoch is defending the paper’s assets (people).
It also suggests two others:
There isn’t going to be any exodus.
Murdoch isn’t going to “wreck” the Journal (There, we said it!)
Meanwhile, the Times has something else to worry about: What will happen to its business franchise (anchored by Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Dealbook) when the Journal goes free?”
Re the WSJ going free, see my reply on this possibility above.
Time to make some popcorn!
Popcorn, quick. Anyone got the popcorn?
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