Wall Street Journal reporters stage ‘walk-out.’
By on Jun 28th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Wall Street Journal reporters stage ‘walk-out.’
WSJ reporters “across the country chose not to show up to work this morning” to protest the potential sale of Dow Jones to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. The paper’s “long tradition of independence…is threatened today,” a press release states.
UPDATE: Eat the Press has more.
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Yet another example of free markets, capitalism and freedom of speech at work. You have the right to walk out in outrage just as your employer has a right to sell his business to someone else. Welcome to the miracle which is the United States.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:52 pmThat is just what we need, people standing up for what is right! More power to them, and I hope their point is well taken.
Now if the sale does go through, I hope that they will have to hire more people in the subscription department to handle all of the cancellations.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:53 pmDamn Liberal Media!!!
June 28th, 2007 at 12:54 pmAnd the end of the WSJ is at hand. Long live the WSJ.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:54 pmI suspect that the basic “blocking and tackling” of factual reporting on the financial markets will remain intact at the WSJ.
But you can kiss editorial prerogative goodbye — “WSJ . . . fair and balanced”. Yeah, sure.
If you thought the WSJ editorial page was biased before, you ain’t seen nothing yet! Just wait until Rupert gets in their pants.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:04 pmAll good Americans should walk out on anything Murdoch publishes, airs or states.
His company has reversed free speech & open debate Nationally for some years now.
I walked out on Fox 5 years ago; how about you?
June 28th, 2007 at 1:05 pmGood > time for the entire nation to go on strike, till Bush resigns.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:06 pmLOL looks like the WSJ reporters are a bunch of hippy commie union organizers!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:07 pmBrilliant!! I love it!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:08 pmLet foreigner Murdoch have the Wall Street journal.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:08 pmThis is Murdoch’s comeuppance time.
He’s over paying for something that will immediately become worthless once he is associated with it.
Couldn’t happen to a bigger prick.
Good job, Wall Street reporters! The Journal has some of the best reporters in the industry, and I suspect deservedly shamed by Murdoch trying to sully their livelihood.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:16 pmI hate the editorial page of the WSJ but I love those reporters who staged a walkout. Congratulations!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:18 pmIt is funny when employee’s think they own the company they work for. How they don’t realize they are nothing more then workers hired to do a job to provide shareholder value is beyond me. I can see how they wouldn’t realize this if it was Communist Russia, but this is the land of the free afterall. Good luck to the losers that think they will accomplish anything other then pissing off their new boss.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:28 pmI for one am sooo rooting for this to happen. Mainly just to prove once and for all that the right wing doesn’t give two shits about integrity, it’s the Almighty Dollar they worship. And that all of this country’s institutions have now been corrupted by the unbridled and infinite greed of capitalists.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:36 pmBoycott Rupert Murdoch?
I agree with you in principle, but I just can’t give up the Simpsons and Tonya Harding vs Paula Jones foxy boxing. Someday he’ll air that OJ Simpson show, and I’ll be ready.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:48 pmIt is funny when employee’s think they own the company they work for.
Poor roger-roger. You see, sweetpea, journalists have a loyalty to their profession that must be balanced with the prerogatives of their employer.
they don’t realize they are nothing more then workers hired to do a job
First of all, babycakes, please learn to properly use “than” instead of “then”. Your poor grammar just reinforces your already-obvious ignorance.
What you get when journalists think of themselves as “hired workers” without any regard for journalistic standards is FoxNoise — a worthless propaganda machine with no redeeming value.
Now, if you still don’t understand the difference, just consider this parallel. What do you get when GDumbya and his Keystone Kops put party loyalty ahead of their constitutional responsibility to serve the country? You get a crony-filled FEMA that can’t respond to national disasters such as Katrina. You get a politicized DOJ that violates the principles of an independent judiciary. You get a dirty little war for oil in Iraq. The list could go on and on.
Now do you understand, honeybuns?
June 28th, 2007 at 1:49 pmComment by Tom — June 28, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
I am afraid your answer was well beyond roger*2’s attention span.
Short answer for you, roger*2:
The Wall Street Journal’s employees are that, employees, not slaves. They are not held in servitude or bondage to the Journal’s owners.
If I still have your attention, read on:
These people have the right to express themselves on how the company is run, as employees. (Did it occur to you they may be shareholders -you know, being capitalistic and all- hence having even more reason to protest the acquisition?)
Are you usually 100% submissive to every command your boss barks in your general direction?
June 28th, 2007 at 2:02 pmGood point, Gregor. I probably did over-estimate roger-roger’s measly intelligence.
Here is another analogy he might understand, though. Would he want to be treated in a hospital where the doctors and nurses had no professional standards and were totally subservient to their employer? I doubt it.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:05 pmMy GOD BARTELBEE did you hear how these people subverted the government by exercising their 1st Amendment Right. I hope the government gets them you know how it is if people strike to subvert the government especially at a time of war!
GFY BARTELBEE! You can’t have it both ways you idiot!
June 28th, 2007 at 2:06 pmToo bad they can’t match Murdoch’s bucks and buy the paper for themselves.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:20 pmRupert Murdoch is an old fool whose only power is the “buying of people”. Monopolies were once illegal and for good reason. This is why this country has become a fascist nation overnight.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:35 pmI’d be more impressed with these reporters if they walked off the job because their were being spoon-fed lies and propaganda and parading it as truth to the american public. So, this impresses me very little. Funny how they can be upset about Murdoch purchasing their sorry butts but can’t see that all that will occur is that that they will have another person’s shoes to shine. Reporters today have zero credibility.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:37 pmThis is NO NEWS! Real news will be made when they develop the presence of mind and conscience to stand up to their sycophantic mediawhore bosses because they are being forced to report half truth, overt lies, and obvious propaganda.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:38 pm#17 What we need to look at to evaluate success is ratings, subscriptions, and shareholder value. Fox has actually done a very good job, thus their “workers” have done well for their employer. We the free market always decide if reporters and journalist are doing a good job based on if we watch/read their stuff. That is the only parameter we need to look at actually.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:43 pmSTRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!
June 28th, 2007 at 2:48 pmComment by Roger_Roger — June 28, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
Well, thanks for your non sequitur.
We were talking about the employees’ rights to express their opinion on how a company is run, not ratings.
Your non-response is a lame attempt at moving the goal posts.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:52 pmhave you hugged a WSJ reporter today?
Each and every one of them that walked out to day is a good person.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:10 pmI would think that their editorial board is at least partly responsible (I use the word loosely) for making the publication so attractive to Murdoch.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:41 pmWhy does BARTELBEE hate striking Wall Street Journal reporters so much? Why does he want them treated as traitors for exercising their Constitutional Rights? Why does he hate Americans along with shrub?
June 28th, 2007 at 3:53 pmI thought the WSJ people were against organizing and having solidarity. Those are Commie characteristics!
Maybe now all those idiots at the WSJ will think twice now before saying “the free market is perfect and never does anything wrong”. Now you have to deal with Murdoch, so fuck off.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:13 pmI will cancel my subscription if Murdock buys it. I invest in China and Murdock let’s China edit the MySpace comments so there goes any facts from that paper. He will probably Hanitize it important facts from Bill O’Liar.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:22 pmThe same Rupert Murdoch who is courting China, because they have the same policies about propaganda that Murdoch has?
June 28th, 2007 at 4:44 pmThe reporters have the right to protest. And the WSJ then has the right to hire new reporters.
Maybe these protesting reporters, if fired, can start a liberal blog and try to make some money via blog advertising.
I wish them the best.
June 28th, 2007 at 7:29 pmHooray! For them!
Welcome to the fight. Guess there is such a thing as a “bridge too far”.
But you’ll have to do more than just walk out for a day, you’ll have to commit what could be either journalistic suicide or your professional salvation. Demand that your readers join your cause!
I’d participate. Set a date and I will join a General Strike. Let Murdoch know how this Republic stands. Give us, your readers, a chance to stand with you.
Murdoch already has too much control over what many people hear, read and see. A man this powerful, even one without the checkered past of Murdock’s, even if a saint, should never be given the power of taking over the premier, independent, financial publication left in America too.
Do it! Call on your Wall Street brothers and sisters and DO
June 28th, 2007 at 9:40 pmIT! Could you stop the sale if we closed Wall Street for a day? We won’t know till you ask.
After some of the truly psychotic ravings I’ve seen in WSJ editorials, I fail to see how the dead hand of Murdoch can be any worse.
June 29th, 2007 at 7:14 amOw, NOW the reporters of the WJS are threatened by a possible loss of independence. Well, nobody heard y’all complain when Bush stole the election… How about when Gitmo was opened… When the patriot act was installed…. When the Iraq war began…. When the surge began…. When we found out the lias behind this war…. When the US attorneys got fired…. When Bush broke the Geneva convention…. Not a friggin word from all of them, let alone some action. But now, now that their own bellies are in trouble, they will be the first ones to make an example, right…. Just step out of the green zone and Rupert will be the least of your troubles, ‘journalists’, maybe try to do your job for a change instead of lazin’ on the job.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:38 am