Murdoch’s Last Laugh

I am planning to stop my subscription to WSJ. The paper has lost its uniqueness and charm - cannot be differentiated from any other newspaper. I do not buy this newspaper to read op-ed on propoganda and sensational non-business news.

What did the WSJ pay for each dot portrait? Quick, those artists need a bailout! Make them banks so they can get some of the other half of TARP before its too late!

argh - you people.. .really. If you knew anything about newspapers you would know that this man is the only man in america who is still prepared to invest in them. Every other owner is running scared, slashing and burning and playing accountants with information diversity and professional journalism. If any of them had any balls, they would rise to the challenge, and instead of wingeing about how he is now coming after them, would instead take up the challenge and produce better, more dynamic, modern products that actually have a chance of survival. You may hate the man and his politics, but he is the last of the true newspaper men and should be an example to the snivelling bean counters that now run this industry

screw murdoch. we don't need another citizen kane.

Murdoch may be a 'bad' goy but the readers (and advertisers too?) seem to appreciate the development. That's more than what can be said over newsweek. It's 'reporting' and 'journalism' has been deeply compromised over that past weeks in particular with the last big outcry. How can I know for sure that Newsweek this time has presented an accurate, honest and balanced work of journalism and not just an ???article??? filled with one-sided, very disputable ???opinions??? a la staff writer Lisa Miller???s cover story in Newsweek?

What has happened to the sticky-sweet fuzzy fun openmindedness of the left-you have all become the mirror image of the ideals you most hate from the conservatives. The problem you have is Murdock owns a paper-you just read it.

"Murdoch???s Last Laugh"?

Really, Johnnie L. Roberts and Newsweek? Your idea of revitalizing a great newspaper like the Wall Street Journal is to hand it over to a sleazy right-wing propaganda merchant like Murdoch? Your own publication and website have just lost a lot of credibility with this one article. Shameful!

Assassin wanted. Pay DOE. Lucritive opportunity.

really?

How anyone could spend any money on a propaganda-laced Murdoch publication is beyond most human undertstanding. Edward R Murrow is spinning so wildly in his grave that if we could hook him up to a large generator we could solve the electrical needs of the entire planet.

Translation - I not only see dumb people, I see a lot of dumb people. And the amount of money required for all of them to buy a clue would exceed the US national debt.

Foreign billionaires like Mexico???s Carlos Slim are buying into US newspapers (NYT) on the cheap. They are trying to shape public opinion for their own advantage and possibly to the disadvantage of American interests. Murdoch is in the forefront of giving China everything they want as long as he makes money in the process.

Murdoch can't kick off fast enough for me. He's the modern-day reincarnation of William Randolph Hearst. He foments war and discord because both of those things sell papers and doesn't care who he hunts along the way.

It still chafes on me that so many of his commentators went "Buy American!" and screamed hate at the people who didn't fall in line even in 2001 and 2002, when News Corp (Murdoch's company and the owner of Fox News and all of Murdoch's newspaper acquisitions) was still an Australian company and Murdoch was not yet a citizen and the money any of these enterprises made went right to Australia. Hypocrisy borne out of ignorance, pure and simple. I have absolutely nothing against Australia at all - rather the opposite - but to shriek at people to buy American while working for a foreign company is a nearly indefensible position. And the Journal purchase is just another attempt to get at the New York Times. Murdoch's been after it for years.

If you support ending the war, support tolerance of Middle Eastern peoples, and oppose bigoted xenophobia, boycott this man's empire.