Oh, dear God

[ridesandruns]

So Rupert Murdoch, the man behind Fox News and the NY Post, is buying Dow Jones. Which means he'll be owning the Wall Street Journal.

Hear that clippity-clop sound? That's the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse out for a trail ride.

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[npkedit]

I know. I'm horrified. The man wouldn't know proper objective journalism (granted, that doesn't mean what it used to, but still) if it bit him on the nose and I don't believe he's going to give the paper the independence he's promised. And the WSJ is THE paper--screw the NYT, which has had so many problems with it over the last number of years, I won't even get started.

[ridesandruns]

Sing it, sister. I hear WSJers are already quitting. They just don't want to be around for the horrors that await. It's a real loss of journalism, especially for NY. Good God. Imagine having the NY Post as a sister paper. *shudder* I have chums who work for the Post, and while most folks in the biz agree it's a fun paper, no one ever, ever calls it a good paper.

[michan17]

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No. No, no, no, no, no. Maybe if I refuse to believe it, it will stop being true. I mean, hey, it's worth a shot.

So, when the anti-Christ is finished taking over all the papers, does the rapture begin or something? Doesn't the End of Days go something like that?

I'm not up on my bible. But I'm pretty sure that the anti-Christ (specifically spelled out to be Rupert Murdoch in my, only mostly modified, bible) buys out all the good newspapers, puts an elephant on the American flag, and then the infidels die.

Right?

No, no, no. I'm not liberal...I'm from San Francisco. >.>

[ridesandruns]

Heh. A woman after my own heart! The man is pure evil, and it's a sad day for U.S. journalism. I hate the WSJ's editorials, but it's still a damn fine newspaper. I suspect that will change. :(