Brooklyn Paper bought by News Corp.

What is more surprising:

1. Brooklyn Paper is now "Fair and Balanced"
2. Rupert Murdoch already owns 30 community weeklies in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/10/32_10_gk_good_buy.html

Neither. At this point, it might be shorter to list the media that Murdoch doesn't have a hand in.

http://www.newscorp.com/index.html

http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1212610552398/page/1212610552378/simplepage.htm

But maybe this will make you feel a little better. (Hope the link works)

I never thought it would be possible for a publication to be improved in terms of journalistic integrity by being taken over by Murdoch, but I think this could be just such a case.

Wow, lucky them for getting somone to buy that rag.
For less annoying hyper-local-free-papertude, I prefer http://www.brooklyneagle.com/

pitu wrote: Wow, lucky them for getting somone to buy that rag.
For less annoying hyper-local-free-papertude, I prefer http://www.brooklyneagle.com/

Pitu, I like "papertude" and by that I mean your use of the word as an expression above, which amused me, and not papertude in practice, which sometimes amuses me, but more often annoys and distracts me.

I find the idea of Gersh working for Rupert somewhat amusing.

It will be like old times Witch-King. According to Gersh's resume on what appears to be his website, writing for the NY Post is among one of his previous jobs in the field. I don't know the guy personally, but one thing I have noticed about him is that he is pretty um, vocal. So I tend to think (and hope) that if he is under any new pressures with this takeover, that he will use his platform as a journalist to let us know about it.

Flo wrote: It will be like old times Witch-King. According to Gersh's resume on what appears to be his website, writing for the NY Post is among one of his previous jobs in the field. I don't know the guy personally, but one thing I have noticed about him is that he is pretty um, vocal. So I tend to think (and hope) that if he is under any new pressures with this takeover, that he will use his platform as a journalist to let us know about it.

True, but he was a reporter for the Post, not the senior editor. He is...vocal.

http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069766/page/1175295284582/JRNSimplePage2.htm

I'm gonna link to the Columbia Journ site again only because I hope Ms. Amanpour's clip comes up. There are still people out there working hard to bring us real news, and I'm hoping that these people survive the times in this business, though I am aware that this hoping might qualify me as a certifiable whackjob.