Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Monday, August 06, 2007


Today's Romy's day to blow a gasket. FIRST:

J-PROF SEES WSJ LOOKING LIKE USA TODAY IN FIVE YEARS!!!!! [Overemphasis added]

Ten years ago it was entirely black and white, with its "etchings." The USAOKAY!!!!! influence started long before THE FORCE OF EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. Besides, I thought you guys thought USAOKAY!!!!! had become a GREAT NEWSPAPER -- especially after its NSA STUNT.

SECOND:

MURDOCH'S BUSINESS HAS THE BIGGEST POTENTIAL TO CORRUPT WSJ!!!!! [Overemphasis added]

Or as this j-prof suggests:

The Journal doesn't need a blue-ribbon panel of grandees, each paid $100,000 a year to attend quarterly meetings. It needs a wholly independent newsroom Conflicts Committee consisting of Journal staffers chosen by their peers, who would investigate staff complaints about coverage that they believe was improperly inclined on News Corp.'s behalf -- and who would publish their findings on a public website outside of managerial control.

In other words, it needs a MINNESOTA NEWS COUNCIL. It needs a BODY of OMBUDSPOOPS. It needs all the trappings of ethics fig leaves that make the public despise the biz even more. And pray tell what of other papers that aren't as holy as the JOURNALS, that have managed to corrupt themselves WITHOUT SLIME? Please Eddie, stop with the ethics.

And third, Romy mopes over the celebrity ad (read "interview"), and as he says, it "may be a bankrupted form, 'but it's still worth saving.'" Only a hack would say something bankrupt is worth saving, which may explain why the Vatican of news organizations, with its gods of biznews, could not save Dow Jones.

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