Sign, sign, everywhere a sign

For two weeks, as negotiations occur between Dow Jones & Company and its union, signs with Rupert Murdoch’s face on them have been posted around The Wall Street Journal’s newsroom, writes Richard Perez-Pena of The New York Times.

Perez-Pena wrote, “The latest bit of cat-and-mouse took place last Tuesday, when Mr. Murdoch paid his first visit to Dow Jones, publisher of The Journal, since the company agreed to be bought by Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation. Most of the signs were torn down ahead of his visit, during which he met with top editors and executives and saw the office that had been built for him in the 11th floor executive suite in the World Financial Center.

“But the signs, objecting to a contract offer by Dow Jones, were promptly replaced by employees, who have been without a contract for seven months.

“Over the pictures of Mr. Murdoch, whose takeover is expected to take effect in November, was the headline, ‘Show Us the Money.’ In other words, a lot of the same people who, not so long ago, said unflattering things about Mr. Murdoch and tried to block the sale, are now calling on him to shell out for them.”

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