WSJ oversight committee informed of editor’s resignation ‘after the fact.’
WSJ oversight committee informed of editor’s resignation ‘after the fact.’
Marcus Brauchli recently stepped down as the Wall Street Journal’s managing editor — just four months after Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought the newspaper. WSJ union members reportedly viewed Brauchli’s resignation as a “loss of ‘a buffer who would maintain editorial independence.’” Editor and Publisher reports that “[t]he special committee formed to oversee editorial independence” at the WSJ “claims it was improperly informed of [Brauchli's] resignation after the fact, according to a report the group released Tuesday”:
The report states that learning about the resignation “after the fact failed to meet the letter and the spirit of the agreement” between Dow Jones and News Corp. over editorial independence.
It went on to add, “Mr. Brauchli expressed ‘regret’ that the committee ‘learned of my resignation late in the process.‘” Brauchli resigned on April 22.
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Imagine that…
**eyes rolling**
April 30th, 2008 at 9:42 pmI’m shocked — SHOCKED! to learn that Murdoch would violate “the letter and the spirit of the agreement”.
Not even Condi Rice could have foreseen that.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:50 pmWSJ is the corpse, dumped in Morlock’s vat of acid with a bull…t promise that nothing will change. It just takes a little time, that’s all.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:59 pmMy, my….how unlike Mr. Murdoch! WSJ Page 3 girls aren’t far away.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:04 amThe WSJ oversight committee : Rupert Murdoch
May 1st, 2008 at 12:35 am:: Congress : Dick Cheney
It’s not about the paper, it’s about the dishonesty milligram. No one expects you to get that. idiot.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:55 amAnd quit waving your magic wand, the keyboard is sticky.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:56 amAbandon all hope ye that worketh at the WSJ. Newsday is next! NYC will soon be under the Dark Prince of Journalism’s evil sway!
May 1st, 2008 at 7:24 amSo a guy resigned from a paper none of you read but didn’t tell someone irrelevant.
And this guy is always claiming that we make stuff up?
I read the Journal, so I guess your assertion just got Cheneyed in the face.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:37 am