Monday, April 14, 2008

Wall Street Journal Parody Rankles Murdoch


Cropped image from source, Huffington Post

Oh, poor baby! Rupert Murdoch is trying to suppress free speech? The hell you say! Parody is traditionally one of the easiest free speech issues to defend, so this publication will get out, beyond how much it already has. Murdoch would be much wiser to stay silent on this issue, as shining a spotlight on it will only increase interest.

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My Wall Street Journal, a parody of the Wall Street Journal on newsstands this week to mark the April 15 tax deadline, has rankled News Corp executives so much that they're trying to make sure no one sees it. The New York Times' Richard Perez-Pena reports that a WSJ representative attempted to snatch up all the copies in the Los Angeles area, where they made public a bit ahead of schedule . . .

Read more at: Huffington Post

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