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scandal
Dow Jones Chief to Stiff British Parliament
Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton was asked last week by England's House of Commons to testify about the rampant wiretapping that he allegedly oversaw when running Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers. He's not going to show. More »
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By John CookComment by raincoaster: I honestly, seriously, have NO idea why this is a story now. Guido Fawkes covered it extensively when it first... 1 Responses | Other threads
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internal memos
Party Time at the WSJ (Please Send Pics)
A tipster just forwarded us the following email from the Wall Street Journal's Robert Thomson. There's a party on in mere MINUTES. And bring your party hats, because Rupert Murdoch's in the hizzouse! More » -
declarations
Peggy Noonan's Snappy Answers to Stupid Palin Defenses
Peggy Noonan is not sad to see Sarah Palin go. In fact, the Reagan speechwriter and well-respected prose stylist and American public intellectual would like Ms. Palin to continue to go even further, away from politics. More »
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By PareeneComment by HiredGoons: "She makes the party look stupid, a party of the easily manipulated." Pareene, this is the definition of inclusive. 5 Responses | Other threads
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synergy
Wall Street Journal Editor's Newsroom Dig At Fox News
The Wall Street Journal's managing editor Robert Thomson is close to News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch, personally and professionally. But that doesn't mean the Aussie is above somehow roughhouse ribbing of his corporate siblings. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Nick Denton: I know we're not supposed to say anything nice about News Corporation. But what's the real story of the Wall... more » | Other threads
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Media Crack
Rupert Murdoch Declares Culture War
In your woebegone Wednesday media column: the WSJ takes on the NYT's culture section in a total death match, TV networks not upset they lost $23 in ad money covering MJ, more Hobo New York Times coverage, and newspapers burn. More »
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Comment by son of spam: Murdoch's right about the NYT coverage. Now, did he say anything about a "Women of Sotheby's" feature on page 3? more » | Other threads
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newspapers
WSJ Exec Calls Google a 'Digital Vampire'
Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton said in a speech that Google was a "digital vampire" that is "sucking the blood" out of the newspaper business. Cue the Gawker/True Blood/Bloodcopy jokes now. [Crain's New York]
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Comment by OopsRecession: What Google does to newspapers isn't exactly "competition." They re-monetize other peoples' content in a way that is impossible for... 2 Responses | Other threads
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mysteries
Apple: Den of Secrets
It looks as though Apple did a good job angering the New York Times with the news that Steve Jobs recently underwent a liver transplant. The paper's Tuesday edition dedicates two pieces to Apple's renowned penchant for shadiness. More »
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Comment by ChillbearLatrigue: "It's not that difficult to imagine Apple doing the same thing when Jobs eventually dies..." Don't you mean "if Jobs eventually... 11 Responses | Other threads
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media
David Carr's Night on the Town
Early this morning, at about 5AM, we were browsing through today's edition of the New York Times when we ran across David Carr's media column. Something about it struck us viscerally, so much so that we were unable to process it at the time and write anything about it. More »
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Comment by autowin: This is just really good. Can I say "good job" without trying to be funny That being said, after just reading... 1 Responses | Other threads
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branding
The Sultriest Wall Street Journal Headcut Ever
The Wall Street Journal is fronting its new "Speakeasy" website with perhaps the sultriest headcut it has ever run, a stipple portrait of hotshot young reporter Rebecca Dana. At least the paper nailed one part of it's blogging strategy! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ms.conniving: Is that a popped collar or merely an attempt to cover up that chin? 3 Responses | Other threads
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shortcuts
Read WSJ Online For Free
Silicon Alley Insider's Nicholas Carlson has discovered how to read the Wall Street Journal online without having to pay for a subscription. [Silicon Alley Insider]
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Comment by Arceus: But the question remains: why would we want to? 4 Responses | Other threads
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media wars
News Corp. Would Like to Renew Its MySpace Deal with 'Parasite' Google
News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch has referred to Google "stealing" or "taking" his copyright. His Wall Street Journal lieutenant Robert Thomson has likened the company to a "parasite or tech tapeworm." But now News Corp. needs to renegotiate a lucrative MySpace ad deal with Google. Whoops. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Turd Ferguson: And with that, Rupert sent out the Silver Surfer to find him another world to devour... 2 Responses | Other threads
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apple
Market Shrugs Off Reports of Steve Jobs' Imminent Return to Apple
Steve Wozniak told a Wall Street Journal reporter his Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sounds "healthy, energetic," signaling the CEO will return from medical leave at the end of June as planned. The market wasn't particularly interested. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by sample032: That chart looks just like QQQQ from 12 to 4. [www.google.com] Which means, yes, the news was leaked. 3 Responses | Other threads
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wtf
WSJ Conference Opens with a Serenade to Rupert Murdoch
We'll admit, there were some funny lines in this serenade to Rupert Murdoch at the Wall Street Journal's "D" event. But isn't buttering up the boss at the absolute beginning of your tech conference a little blatant? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by GORDONGARTRELLE: My kingdom for a virtual barfbag. more » | Other threads
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bloglash
Bloomberg Forbids Mentioning Competitors, or Linking to Them
Bloomberg has distributed a policy to newsroom staff on blogging, Twittering and Facebook updating. And in keeping with the company's tyrannical management culture, the rules are far more authoritarian than similar admonitions recently dispensed at the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and elsewhere. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by lawnsprinkler: Not linking offsite sounds like the kind of forward-thinking policy that will allow old media to compete with the undisciplined... 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The WSJ's Twitterati Break All the Rules
Oh, the rebellious minions of Rupert Murdoch! The Wall Street Journal has issued precious new rules for how its reporters and editors must conduct themselves on social networks. They are, of course, being ignored. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by DeltaGuy: I don't normally use Gawker comments to complain about content on the site, but really, this is the fifth Twitter... more » | Other threads
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newspaper wars
WSJ Scolds 'Confused' Simpletons at Times
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are now in a full-blown pissing match over circulation. The name calling must be more comfortable for the newspapers than grappling with their real problems. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by eatsshootsleaves: You know, USA Today kicks both their butts in circulation. Which is to say, just because more people are reading... 3 Responses | Other threads
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media wars
Outrage: WSJ In Blog Duplicity Scandal
As any political campaign manager knows, sanctimonious attacks only invite a more outraged rebuttal. The Wall Street Journal's Google-slamming editor just learned how quickly anger boomerangs online. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Aaron Altman: Or when the shoe starts out on the other foot in Thomson's mouth. 2 Responses | Other threads
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the chart
Debunking the AP's Aggregation Aggravation
Online aggregators are financial vampires sucking the lifeblood out of the news business! You know — evil digital upstarts like the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and the New York Times. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by UmaGaleo: But the chart supports the newspapers' central complaint: Papers' sites would still get traffic without search engines. But those search... 2 Responses | Other threads
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memos
Departing WSJ Writer: 'All That Is "Urgent" Has Doubtless Stifled the Boundless Creativity of the Journal Staff'
Wall Street Journal feature writer Joshua Prager was known to work painstakingly slow. But the pieces he produced for the front page were always memorable, such as his investigation into the anonymous Iranian photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980. He announced that he's leaving the paper because he doesn't fit in any more. In the farewell that he sent his colleagues, he lobbed a few attacks at Robert Thomson, the new editor of the paper since it was bought by Rupert Murdoch. "URGENT" is a new wire service copy system that Thomson announced a couple weeks ago. More »
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Comment by Botswana Meat Commission FC: I'm sure this dude is an awesome journalist, but he basically admits: - he works at a snail's pace and... 1 Responses | Other threads
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advertising
Rupert Murdoch's Premium Content Flip Flop
It was barely 18 months ago that Rupert Murdoch told the world he would soon stop charging for access to the Wall Street Journal's website. Now he says free content should be abolished. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by momof3wildkids: Sadly, I agree with Murdoch on this one. With advertising sales down so dramatically and online ads efficacy dubious... 3 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Wall Street's Newspaper Slaves
The New York Times has a Nobel-prize-winning economist on staff. But no such expert is in tomorrow's front-page story on the trillion-dollar financial bailout. Only the stock market's verdict is included. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by nosyparker: This is just more daily proof that the NYT should be left to die the death that it deserves. There... 2 Responses | Other threads
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without comment
WSJ Editor: 'New Nomenclature Alone Will Not Generate News'
Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson urged his charges to work faster. To underline the point, some system that feeds WSJ stories to Dow Jones Newswires will now be called "URGENT" instead of "Speedy." More »
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Comment by Pope John Peeps II: What if we just renamed "news" as "vaginas". Would that increase interest in "vaginas"? 13 Responses | Other threads
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mictrotrends
Mark Penn Discovers Unemployed People
Today's Mark Penn "Microtrend": lots of people are out of work! Well, that is just a "trend." The "micro" bit is that the sort of people the famous pollster knows personally are out of work! More »
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By PareeneComment by CaptainFantastic: The quoted paragraph identifies lawyers, but it describes many professionals (e.g., engineers, architects). But I guess Penn only knows lawyers... Also,... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Refugees in Chad Could Have Used That Soup, Twitter Lady
What did the media overshare today? Jennifer 8. Lee thought about high school reunions instead of Snapple, Today's Ann Curry toured refugee camps, and Fast Company's Ellen McGirt got down with a lot of leather. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MissCast: Jennifer 8 Lee, New Jersey. Sorry, couldn't help myself. 2 Responses | Other threads
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public relations
WSJ Reporter: Anna Wintour Wasn't Putting Me Down
Rachel Dodes, the Wall Street Journal reporter who Anna Wintour seemed to diss in a weekend interview, said she wasn't offended to be told "we had a little sequined thing that wouldn't come down to here on you [points to chest.]" More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ihateyourescalade: It's beyond me how you can interpret Wintour's comment as a dis to the reporter, especially when Dodes isn't the... 1 Responses | Other threads
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celebrity science
Wintour to Reporter: This Garment Would Never Fit You
In today's Anna Wintour image rehabilitation news, the Vogue editor is reportedly filmed at yet another charity ball and gives the WSJ an interview. But she called the reporter huge. Whoops!
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By Ryan TateComment by The Boulevard of Broken Queens: ...um ...isn't she saying the writer is too tall for the garmet, not too fat? and in fashion, tall is... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Totally Losing It
Today, a media elite replete with tweets thought about all the things they no longer have. And boy, did Wired's editor get mad at a Danish reporter! Also, food, food, and more food: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by miss_msry: Sorry, but if you are Twittering on Twitter you're a Twitt. 1 Responses | Other threads
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wall street journal
Rupert Murdoch's Other Expensive Hobby
The Wall Street Journal will never be such a toy to Rupert Murdoch as the mogul's cash-bleeding, score-settling New York Post. But at the moment it does seem an indulgence. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by EmersonErmine: You may not be a Murdoch fan, but the Journal reporting still seems good to me. The news and edit... 1 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Wall Street Journal Dropped Ball On Madoff Scam Too
The Wall Street Journal wrote frequently about how the SEC ignored Harry Markopolos' warnings about Bernie Madoff. It slammed the agency for investigating "without much energy." Left unsaid: the Journal was itself apathetic. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Iceland Spar: Though, in fairness to the SEC, I would like to see some kind of a list of how many people... 2 Responses | Other threads
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stimulus
Rush Limbaugh Stimulates the Newsmedia
When did the stimulus debate become about Rush Limbaugh? Seriously? This is a failure on everyone's part. More »
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By PareeneComment by SlantedAndDisenchanted: Honestly, can someone please tell who is legitmately the face of the Republican Party today? I mean an honest and... 13 Responses | Other threads
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terror
WSJ Editor Menaced by Tennessee Mailer
Update from the Wall Street Journal white-powder scare: The evacuation has been so mishandled that employees were reduced to reading Gawker — or picking up the phone and reporting the story themselves. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Baroness: Tennessee Mailer is one of my favorite 20th century writers. Alcoholic and doomed, his early success descended into paranoia, glue-huffing... 9 Responses | Other threads
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terror
Terror at the Wall Street Journal!
The World Financial Center—home of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal—just received a "suspicious package"! No one is allowed to open any mail! Breaking! More »
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By PareeneComment by Smitros: Suspicious? Many of my envelopes have trust issues as well. 3 Responses | Other threads
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NSWF
Karl Rove Enjoys "Snatch and Grab" Video at Annual "NSWF Dinner"
Karl Rove wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. The best present he got this year was a photo of some "bearded and scruffy" Navy Seals. More »
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By PareeneComment by tammyfey: That this bulging sack of dogshit has a column is yet another reason never to read the WSJ. 6 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Battle of the Copycat Tech Blogs
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are locked in an obsessive death match. Only one newspaper can survive! But until one slays the other, they're mimicking each other's every move.
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By Owen ThomasComment by KirkLazarus: "Drop the cutesy sub-brands ... and just start running stories online, without ghettoizing them in special blogs. Either they're worthy... 1 Responses | Other threads
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nerdfight
Wall Street Journal "confused" by Google's evil behavior
It's a classic geek insult: A Google executive has called the Wall Street Journal "confused" about its stance on whether companies should be able to buy themselves a fast lane on the Internet. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Moonshine Mike: At first I was not shocked, but if they claim this is no different than Akamai, then why should it... 3 Responses | Other threads
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losers
Mark Penn Has a Well-Compensated Newspaper Job, Still No Justice in Universe
Mark Penn should be shot from a cannon into the deepest part of the ocean. Instead he has a new Wall Street Journal column! Let's read it, and cry. More »
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By PareeneComment by Moff: What about the macrotrend group of people who understand that Mark Penn is a fucking retard and don't ever want... 12 Responses | Other threads
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Business Media
"Wall Street" Part of Wall Street Journal Increasingly Meaningless
Robert Thomson, the wily Aussie installed by Rupert Murdoch as editor of the Wall Street Journal, wants his newspaper to be big in Japan. And Europe. And Chicago. And Los Angeles.
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By Owen ThomasComment by cassandra: Thomson is Australian, not British. I'm not sure how that affects your illusory "wiliness" matrix but it's worth getting it... 1 Responses | Other threads
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wendi deng
How Rupert Murdoch's Man-Eating Wife Controls Him
For the most part, Rupert Murdoch courts controversy. "He likes to set the house on fire and watch all the fire engines drive maniacally down the road," Michael Wolff writes in a biography of the News Corporation chairman. But he's touchy about his third wife, Wendi Deng, nearly 40 years his junior. He was upset when the Wall Street Journal decided to profile her in 2000. And he is suspected to be behind the spiking of a Fortune contributor's Deng profile for an Australian newspaper chain he partly owned at the time, and the subsequent sanitization of Deng's Wikipedia entry. So Murdoch can't be tickled that Wolff says Deng has him by the short wires, according to the Times' new review of Wolff's Murdoch bio:
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By Ryan TateComment by VirusWithShoes: The Gold-Digger And The Dirty-Digger. 3 Responses | Other threads
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meltdowns
It's Wall Street Journal official: we're all gonna die
What little hope I had was crushed by the WSJ this morning. Under the non-alarmist headline, "Tech Shares May Fall Further," the Journal lists every single reason the tech industry is screwed. If you can make it through the first fourteen stomach-churning paragraphs, there's this one ray of semi-hope: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by abettertomorrow: @sample32: the journalistic theme is generally GOOG='good','heroic','market leader','winner' and YHOO='missed the boat','loser','mis-managed' but - YTD - YHOO has marginally out performed... 1 Responses | Other threads
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ani difranco
Hippie Folksinger Invades WSJ Newsroom
Pat Buchanan is defending Hillary Clinton, the Guardian is scooping on U.S. political news, and now this, perhaps the ultimate WTF moment in media this week: Lefty, anti-corporate folksinger Ani DiFranco performed two songs for Wall Street Journal editorial staff today, right before deadline, we hear. "Weird time to be a biz reporter," one staffer at the conservative business newspaper Twittered. The setlist? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Aaron Altman: OVERHEARD AFTER ANI DiFRANCO'S PERF AT THE WSJ: "Oh my God, you have the same nickname as Anakin from Star Wars!" -... 8 Responses | Other threads
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