I am just shocked and amazed. :sarcasm:
Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp and Fox News, using a media property to advance his right wing ideology? Imagine that!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/14/rupert-murdoch-wall-street-journal
When Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal two years ago, Manhattan's media observers predicted it wouldn't be long before battle lines were drawn between the two US newspaper titans.
And today the antagonism that has been simmering between the Journal and its liberal rival, the New York Times, boiled over, with editors of the esteemed organs trading a series of barbed comments.
Displaying a combative style more often associated with Fleet Street than the North American market, the Journal's editor-in-chief, Robert Thomson launched a vigorous defence of his title in response to a New York Times column that alleged the Journal was "tilting rightwards". Murdoch, it added, was now using the Journal to "play politics".
In a statement, Thomson said: "The news column by a Mr David Carr is yet more evidence that the New York Times is uncomfortable about the rise of an increasingly successful rival while its own circulation and credibility are in retreat."
He went on to accuse the Times of basing the article on quotes from ex-employees and using "a succession of anonymous quotes and unsubstantiated assertions".