Color me a cynical bastard, but really: how much more can you possibly muddy the water in a single editorial piece? Hell, in the first three paragraphs of an editorial piece:
Review & Outlook: News and Its Critics – WSJ.com.
To recap: that News Corp got caught in a major scandal that has caused the shuttering of a newspaper, the resignation and arrest of a director of said paper, the resignation of the CEO of the Wall Street Journal and the resignation of a Scotland Yard chief is evidence of a potential assault on journalism. We’re all in this together.
Also, the fact that Scotland Yard didn’t act on the unethical and illegal actions of our journalist brothers in arms (remember: we’re all in this together) is more troubling than our lack of ethics. Because we cannot help being craven, we need law enforcement to step in.
And oh, yeah: politicians need media coverage, so the media should be given a free pass when they hack the phone of a dead teenager. That part seems obvious. Even more obvious: hacking phones of terrorist attack victims is pretty much equal to a biased editorial slant in the Guardian’s reporting. Wait. Did I say “pretty much?” No. Totally. Equal.
The rest of the article is a lot of blah-blah-blah about how awesome the WSJ is and their CEO is just the tops, despite having resigned over a scandal which has to date only affected British papers. Methinks the next week is going to be full of fun WSJ news….
2 replies on “The @WSJ Editorializes #Hacking Scandal: We’re Still Pretty Awesome”
It’s so convenient to leave out glaring problems with this argument, but don’t they think people will see them? Like the large amounts of money paid to all these police, politicians, and others. Money of that magnitude can’t be hidden in the books. Who but the guy in charge OK’s that?
Exactly. I can’t imagine how the let this article out the door: the only thing worse than what is going on is such a gossamer attempt at denying it.