Real News for Journalists: Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal
March 11, 2020
DarkCyber spotted the ad below in a recent Wall Street Journal, dead tree edition. We clipped the ad during the week of March 3, 2020. The ad explains that “Journalists don’t just write stories.” That is true.
The image on the left is the ad from the WSJ for the Dow Jones News Fund. Sincere. Nice person. Picture ID. Word salad. (Note: DarkCyber understands that a foundation is different from a real news operation. But …)
Left, a little bit of revisionism. Right, history, a multi-year history at that.
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The ad asserts, “They record history.” No, that is semi true. Journalists make history.
One quick reminder. The article on the right explains a multi year phone hacking operation by a Murdoch entity. Does the Murdoch DNA infuse the Wall Street Journal? DarkCyber is in the dark.
Whom does DarkCyber believe, the ad for the Dow Jones (Murdoch owned) entity, or the report in CNN whose headline reads:
UK Phone Hacking Scandal Fast Facts?
What’s DarkCyber take? History is history. Journalists who generate confections about the wonders of certain publishing enterprises may want to know history. One cannot restate it or reinvent it without a glimmer of awareness of who, what, when, where, and why?
Oh, the why? Money.
Stephen E Arnold, March 11, 2020
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