Carr's Column Rekindles Rivalry Between WSJ, NYT
In his “Media Equation” column today, The New York Times‘s David Carr took on The Wall Street Journal, two years after Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought the financial paper.
Carr contends that Murdoch’s influence has made the paper more right-leaning, going so far as to say that the paper is trending more towards New York Post territory than its more impartial news brethren, like the Times:
“[U]nder Mr. Murdoch’s leadership, the newspaper is no longer anchored by those deep dives into the boardrooms of American business with quaint stippled portraits, opting instead for a much broader template of breaking general interest news articles with a particular interest in politics and big splashy photos.”
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