Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal featured an op-ed column purportedly penned by the Dark Prince of News Corp., Rupert Murdoch.
The piece, headlined “Journalism and Freedom,” had this uplifting nut graf:
The future of journalism is more promising than ever—limited only by editors and producers unwilling to fight for their readers and viewers, or government using its heavy hand either to overregulate or subsidize us.
Speaking of subsidizing – nowhere in the op-ed is Murdoch acknowledged as the owner of said Wall Street Journal.
That’s not exactly freedom of journalism.
Sure it is, John. As the owner, he gets to define freedom of journalism any way he wants.
It the current equivalent of A.J. Liebling’s “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”