Gawker
Robert Thomson—Rupert Murdoch's lieutenant at the Wall Street Journal—has learned from Dick Cheney's search for George Bush's vice president. Thomson has nominated himself as the next managing editor. (Told you so.) The committee supposed to protect the independence of the newspaper met today to wave him through.
The 47-year-old Australian journalist—30 years younger than Murdoch to the day and a close confidante of the media mogul—will now have untrammeled power to turn the Journal into a national newspaper-of-record or fail in the attempt.
There's only one wrinkle: the editor of the Journal's embarrassingly ideological opinion pages, Paul Gigot, will not report to Thomson. That may be to prevent Murdoch from influencing the political line of the newspaper, a bizarre concession to allow the special committee to save face. The irony is that editorial pages are quite conservative enough without any assistance from Murdoch.
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I hear Bruno Kirby's character in The Godfather II, saying KAmoneen!
I think a colon's disappeared.
@awhatsname: No, it hasn't. You just need to re-read the sentence three times and know something about Dick "Duck Hunt" Cheney's political prowess.
Although the photograph doesn't make it obvious, Murdoch's left arm is, as it should be, inserted squarely in Thomson's puppet-hole.
Whatever. Paul Gigot has his own weekend show on Murdoch's Fox News Channel.
Rupert wins again. He is the best. Everyone should do themselves a favor: Never bet against him, regardless of the odds.
Boy, the members of that committee -- those keepers of the faith and protectors of the truth! -- really earned their $100k, didn't they? A band of deaf-dumb-mute orangutans could have waved Thomson through.
past, over
Murdoch and Thompson "both are Australian natives, have Chinese wives and are raising young children. They have vacationed together and even share the same birthday, March 11"
The same birthday? How is this even possible?
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