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Obama (The Messiah) by Gerard Baker (The Times Of London)
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Wall Street Journal Makes Rightward Veer With News Hire
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Via Michael Calderone at Politico comes the news that the Wall Street Journal has hired Gerard Baker, a self-styled "right-wing curmudgeon" from the Times Of London, as the paper's new deputy editor-in-chief, where he will have oversight of the Journal's news coverage. Calderone says that the move "surprised some staffers because of his strong, right-wing political views." No doubt the surprise wore off after those staffers remembered recent events and said to themselves, "Oh, that's right! The Wall Street Journal was recently acquired by Rupert Murdoch after a protracted battle with the hopeless Bancroft family!"
And, in ...
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Wall Street Journal gets far right wing editor for the news pages: Gerard Baker will be the new deputy editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal. See him narrate an uncreative Hannity-like over-the-top video where he "praises" Obama The Messiah here (6 min YouTube). It's on the level of the snark you find at NRO's The Corner. Will the Financial Times (or the New York Times) edge out the WSJ if the Journal continues down the Murdoch trail?
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