Thursday, June 28, 2007

WSJ Reporters Stage Walk-Out Over Fear of Rupert Murdoch


Reporters at the Wall Street Journal are freaking out at the thought of their newspaper being transformed into the Fox News Journal.

Apparently, there are some things that conservatives and liberals can agree on.

Like, for instance: the prospect of working for Rupert Murdoch is a bipartisan nightmare.

Think Progress reports:

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.