Comments on: How Low Can They Go?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:36:14 +0000

I don’t guess he watches Jim Cramer, or saw the 300 point drop in the Dow today.

By: whig

whig — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:58:59 +0000

Here would be their response. To blame irrational pessimism.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:47:57 +0000

If the Federal Reserve and government don’t start paying attention to what is going on in the markets, they are going to see a lot of their friends in major trouble.

The WSJ should start reporting on how bad things really are, because if the Fed doesn’t start to drop rates we are in for a nasty landing after a really bad fall.

I would wonder if the Journal and other financial media are going to hide the truth like they did during the early days of the Great Depression.

By: John B.

John B. — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:11:34 +0000

Things are never so bad but what they can’t get worse — the WSJ included.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:32:02 +0000

bush and cheney: dolts with blood on their hands…

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:06:55 +0000

“To truly be a tabloid you have to feature boobs and blood,so some of his properties haven’t quite reached that nadir.”

I don’t know about that; Bush and Cheney appear pretty frequently in all his media…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:50:59 +0000

There is nothing wrong with a bias, as long as you admit and publicize the bias. Murdock refuses to admit the slant of his media, and keeps claiming to provide straight news. Unfiltered news is the rarest of gems.

To truly be a tabloid you have to feature boobs and blood, so some of his properties haven’t quite reached that nadir. They are, however, all deeply biased, with fact checking optional.

By: whig

whig — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:43:16 +0000

Is there any NoiseCorpse property you do not consider now to be a tabloid?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:33:40 +0000

The business coverage is considered the gold standard. If its quality starts to lag, it will become just another tabloid.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:23:11 +0000

The editorial page is famous for being the looniest patch of media real estate anywhere outside of a Scientology convention or Sun Myung Moon’s compound. But the rest of the paper does enjoy something of a reputation for fairness and balanced reporting, albeit on a rather narrow front. I suspect that may be what most people are worried that Murdoch and his Faux News crew will change.

Me, I couldn’t possibly care less. Never read the Journal, and I’m surely not going to start now!