Ex-employees are tweeting their disgust like mad, and it’s a joke all over the Internet. Says one wag:
Greater love than this no man hath, that he lay down his paper for his woman
Rival papers are having a field day. Even Murdoch’s Times of London is getting in on it.
I said a long time ago that News Corp. was no home for The Wall Street Journal, the word’s leading watchdog of markets, the economy, and corporate behavior.
But for now, remember the lesson of NotW: accountability stops at the newsroom door.
"and elsewhere expressed confidence in Brooks, and, unbelievably, put her in charge of getting to the bottom of activities she had been responsible for."
Unbelievable? But. .. that hair! That hair!
Widen your scope just a bit, Dean. Over at the NYT there's a little article about deferred prosecutions that's worth a read. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/business/in-shift-federal-prosecutors-are-lenient-as-companies-break-the-law.html?_r=1&hp
No parallel, I know, between Murdoch's tawdry little empire and the entire U.S. corporate and regulatory culture, but kind of funny anyway.
#1 Posted by Edward Ericson Jr., CJR on Fri 8 Jul 2011 at 01:38 PM
The New York Post's coverage consisted today of a story of two hundred and eighty-two (282) words. http://nyp.st/pbaQXz
#2 Posted by Aaron Elstein, CJR on Fri 8 Jul 2011 at 04:51 PM