Jeff Bercovici of DailyFinance.com writes about how the bluster from Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson about the paper’s competition with the New York Times is indicative of how the business newspaper has bought into the News Corp. culture.
“Likewise, Thomson and his boss are positively obsessed with putting the hurt on the Times, locally and nationally. But you needn’t take my word for it. Just look at the speech Thomson gave when the Journal introduced its ‘Greater New York’ section, which was almost entirely devoted to attacking the Gray Lady. Or recall that Thomson personally suggested using a photo of Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. to illustrate a story about men with feminine facial features.
“I understand why Lewis engages in this kind of counterfactual posturing — that’s what he’s paid to do. But Thomson is supposed to be a journalist, not a flack. Surely he could delegate the spinning to somebody else?”
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