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Boycott the Wall Street Journal

ConspiRaider

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The megalomaniac has succeeded:
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nWEN9896

Put this guy on the street. Drop all purchasing of the WSJ.

Are you on Myspace? Get off of there. He owns that too.

Or you can continue to funnel money to this out-of-control megalomaniac.

Folks - You just know that things are terribly wrong on this planet when this much power is handed over to one disgustingly putrid megalomaniac. That is undeniable.
 
I hear he's in negotiations to buy JREF.
 
From TFA:

> Prestbo

Sounds vaguely sexual.

In any case, I didn't know "Dow Jones" owned "Wall Street Journal". Learn something new every day.
 
I'm kicking myself for the silly, fleeting moment during which I thought that this wouldn't happen.

:mgduh
 
Rob Lister said:
Why should I boycott a not-insignificant portion of of my portfolio?

I suspect rubert will sell off the piece parts and just keep the paper. A great paper it shall stay.
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Have you read any of his other papers? The Sun, perchance? Their headlines often use the words "Cor!". Or the News of the World, whose former Royal editor is currently in gaol for illegal phone taps, taps he was allegedly ordered to carry out by the paper's editor? Great papers they are not, I resolutely assure you.

'News' International has no truck for quality journalism, as far as I can tell.
 
ConspiRaider said:
The megalomaniac has succeeded:
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nWEN9896

Put this guy on the street. Drop all purchasing of the WSJ.

Are you on Myspace? Get off of there. He owns that too.

Or you can continue to funnel money to this out-of-control megalomaniac.

Folks - You just know that things are terribly wrong on this planet when this much power is handed over to one disgustingly putrid megalomaniac. That is undeniable.
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You should listen to some nut-jobs in here - according to their view there are no problems with the Media Democracy in the US... :rolleyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_democracy#Media_ownership_concentration
 
volatile said:
Have you read any of his other papers? The Sun, perchance? Their headlines often use the words "Cor!". Or the News of the World, whose former Royal editor is currently in gaol for illegal phone taps, taps he was allegedly ordered to carry out by the paper's editor? Great papers they are not, I resolutely assure you.

'News' International has no truck for quality journalism, as far as I can tell.
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What does quality journalism have to do with profit?
 
Rob Lister said:
What does quality journalism have to do with profit?
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Quality Journalism = Expensive
Expensive = No [smaller] Profit
Smaller Profit = Less quality Journalism
Less quality Journalism = Higher Profits

...and so on...
 
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Tony said:
Quality journalism = respect = high readership = profit. I'm not surprised you don't understand this.
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Well I know you definitely haven't read the Sun then! ;)

When thinking of the Sun, the words 'denominator', 'common' and 'lowest' spring to mind. And not necessarily in that order.
 
volatile said:
Well I know you definitely haven't read the Sun then! ;)
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No, I haven't. :)

When thinking of the Sun, the words 'denominator', 'common' and 'lowest' spring to mind. And not necessarily in that order.
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Really? Not surprised really, Murdoch's media tends to appeal to the idiots of the world.
 
ConspiRaider said:
The megalomaniac has succeeded:
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nWEN9896

Put this guy on the street. Drop all purchasing of the WSJ.

Are you on Myspace? Get off of there. He owns that too.

Or you can continue to funnel money to this out-of-control megalomaniac.

Folks - You just know that things are terribly wrong on this planet when this much power is handed over to one disgustingly putrid megalomaniac. That is undeniable.
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please! Just stop the BS. No one reads newspapers anymore.
 
Tony said:
No, I haven't. :)
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Keep it that way if you can.

Really? Not surprised really, Murdoch's media tends to appeal to the idiots of the world.
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True enough, for the most part. Though the Sun sells 3 million copies a day... and whilst there might well be 3 million idiots in my country, I'd rather act the ostrich here and pretend that that's not the case.

I can see the WSJ going very, very rapidly (but probably quite subtly) downhill as soon as Murdoch can parachute his own NI editorial team in.
 
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