{"id":457,"date":"2007-06-04T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2007-06-04T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T18:09:00","slug":"the-wall-street-journal-should-read-its-own-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/06\/the-wall-street-journal-should-read-its-own-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wall Street Journal should read its own history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pullquote\">An owner \u201cmost properly, considers his newspaper as a plain business proposition.\u201d <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">WSJ<\/span>, 1925<\/span><span class=\"dropcaps\">A<\/span>nyone considering the absurd talk of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB118091659272323250.html?mod=blogs\" target=\"_blank\">editorial strictures<\/a> being put around the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Wall Street Journal <\/span>prior to its possible purchase by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rupert Murdoch<\/span> might want to look into the Journal\u2019s own archives.<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<p>Back in January 1925 it published an op-ed titled, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">\u201cA Fictitious Public Interest.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the Journal\u2019s leader writers then: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A newspaper is a private enterprise, owing nothing whatever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore \u2018affected\u2019 with no public interest. It is emphatically the property of its owner, who is selling a manufactured product at his own risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An owner \u201cmost properly, considers his newspaper as a plain business proposition.\u201d WSJ, 1925Anyone considering the absurd talk of editorial strictures being put around the Wall Street Journal prior to its possible purchase by Rupert Murdoch might want to look into the Journal\u2019s own archives. Back in January 1925 it published an op-ed titled, \u201cA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50],"tags":[94,389,177,207],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","tag-dow-jones","tag-journalism-history","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-wsj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}