WSJ Editorial Review Committee A '98 Pound Weakling'?
To no one’s surprise, the much vaunted “Editorial Review Committee” that will handle the Wall Street Journal‘s transition to Rupert Murdoch‘s ownership has no teeth. Mark Fitzergald of Editor & Publisher parsed the WSJ-News Corp. agreement overseeing the committee and says it “looks like a 98-pound weakling“:
There’s a reference right up front to the Special Committee’s powers to “enforce” the agreement, yet the more I read, the more it appears that the enforcement amounts to the power to write a report and publish it in the Journal.
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