Tunku Varadarajan, a former op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal who now writes for Forbes, argues that new owner Ruper Murdoch has made it a better paper.
“Like Ol’ Man River, those ‘leders’ — the in-house name for front-page stories — just kept rolling along, with their anecdotal openings, buried leads and 2,000-word jumps to other pages of the paper. These pieces were often edited by four or five different editors, each making his or her own self-aggrandizing demands and corrections, often with scant respect shown to the hapless reporter who’d written the darn piece in the first place.
“Let us give Murdoch his due: The Journal’s news stories are now shorter, sharper, newsier and more relevant. The paper is expanding. He is the only press mogul who does not have to butcher his payroll and put reporters on the dole. And yet, people complain, which can only lead one to conclude that there is an ad hominem foundation to many critical evaluations of the Murdoch Journal: To wit, many people simply do not like Rupert Murdoch. In fact, he scares people.”
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