“The four-month courtship proved arduous for both sides, as several members of the Bancroft family — Dow Jones’s controlling owners — opposed Murdoch’s bid, fearing the tabloid king would wreck the integrity of the Journal and use it to further his business and political interests.

In the end, nearly two-thirds of the Bancroft family voted for the merger and the two sides agreed to create an editorial board that would act as a buffer between Murdoch and the Journal and have a say in the hiring and firing of two of the paper’s top editors.“

I hope there’s a mass exodus of the respected writers and WSJ just fuckin’ bombs. God love Rupert!

I know it’s old, but it’s still funny as hell...

2005
myspace
thighspace
unzip-your-flyspace

2006
friend-space
trend-space
why won’t you spend-space?

2007
mock-space
lock-space
3rd-party block-space

2008
faux-space
blow-space
where-did-they-go-space?

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” — Bill Cosby

“Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his.” — Franklin P. Jones

“Men are born to succeed, not fail.” — Henry David Thoreau