{"id":868,"date":"2008-04-18T00:28:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T07:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=868"},"modified":"2008-04-18T00:35:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T07:35:21","slug":"wall-street-journal-squelches-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal Squelches Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"

A parody of the Wall Street Journal has the Wall Street Journal up in arms<\/a>. When copies of the parody appeared at newsstands, so did a Journal operative who insisted on buying every last one.<\/p>\n

“He grabbed them all, said, ‘I need to buy all of these,'” Mr. Laurence said. “He had been going around to different stands, buying them.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is this just another demonstration of Rupert Murdoch’s commitment to honest journalism and free expression? Or is Murdoch merely exercising his business reporting philosophy as told to his former editor Harold Evans (Good Times, Bad Times<\/em>):<\/p>\n

“What do you want this crap for, anyway? Two pages is plenty for business news.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the man who just joined the board<\/a> of the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A parody of the Wall Street Journal has the Wall Street Journal up in arms. When copies of the parody appeared at newsstands, so did a Journal operative who insisted on buying every last one. “He grabbed them all, said, ‘I need to buy all of these,’” Mr. Laurence said. “He had been going around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,34],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-wall-street-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-e0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30957,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30957","url_meta":{"origin":868,"position":0},"title":"Rupert Murdoch Rips Crybaby Donald Trump’s Crackpot Polling Conspiracy","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/18\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Proving once again how thin-skinned and paranoid Donald Trump is, he flipped out after learning that a new NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll showed him trailing Ted Cruz nationally by two points. 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