{"id":3103,"date":"2008-04-25T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T20:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2008-04-25T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T20:11:07","slug":"the-wsj%e2%80%99s-little-committee-that-failed%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"The WSJ\u2019s Little Committee That Failed\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To protect the paper\u2019s editorial independence<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_audit\/the_wsjs_committee_that_failed.php?page=all\">24 April 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So much for the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118598565803884843.html\">editorial side agreement<\/a> that was supposed to protect <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u2019s editorial independence from News Corp. meddling.<\/p>\n<p>And so much for the five luminaries who make up the committee designed to enforce the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid ejection of Marcus Brauchli as managing editor of the world\u2019s leading financial publication\u2014like a dead <a href=\"http:\/\/australian-animals.net\/\">dugong<\/a> blown from a didgeridoo\u2014reveals the value of that particular bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Five Mr. Bill dolls molded with facial expressions of concern and dismay would have done as well. Oooh nooo! There goes Marcus. Oooh!<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_audit\/the_wsjs_committee_that_failed.php?page=all\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To protect the paper\u2019s editorial independence Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review, 24 April 2008 So much for the editorial side agreement that was supposed to protect The Wall Street Journal\u2019s editorial independence from News Corp. meddling. And so much for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3103\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-O3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}