Signed, Sealed, & Delivered

Published: August 1, 2007, 10:50 am

Tags: the wall street journal, dow jones, rupert murdoch, news corporation, rachel maddow

In case you hadn’t heard, Rupert Murdoch, the crude, shrewd Australian-born right-winger now owns Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, making him the single most powerful media mogul in the world. "It’s sad," said a veteran reporter at one of the domestic bureaus, who did not want to be named because of concerns over his career. "We held a wake. We stood around a pile of Journals and drank whiskey." Not a bad idea. Rupert Murdoch’s political views may even be slightly to the left of Paul Gigot’s and the rest of the crew on the Journal’s editorial pages, so there’s likely to be little change there. But the news pages of the paper – which the editorialists often don’t seem to have read before typing their screeds – are now at the mercy of News Corporation’s whims. Those pages are well-respected for good reason, not least of which has been the inclusion of some of the finest long-tailed

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