Soundbite: ‘Murdoch Didn’t Ruin WSJ; He Just Made It Ordinary’

 

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“Murdoch didn’t ruin The Wall Street Journal; he just rendered it into a much more ordinary paper.”

Former Wall Street Journal Staffer Glenn R. Simpson, who was quoted by David Carr in today’s “Media Equation” column that details a new bias at the Journal under new owner Rupert Murdoch. We would be remiss in pointing out that we, in fact, made noticed the very same thing in August of this year. Harrumph.

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