02 October 2007
Wall Street Journal Gets Foxy
Ever since the Rupert Murdoch purchase of the Wall Street Journal, I’m sure that many have been monitoring the editorial pages, as well as the paper’s news coverage, for their reflection of a further reactionary drift, if not a tendency towards sensationalism. The September 29-30, 2007, issue carried an OpEd article by Dan Senor that made a case for intervening in Iran to stop its leaders from leveraging its potential nuclear weapons power to influence regional geopolitics.
Secret collaboration must be under discussion now between the world’s great powers, including the Security Council permanent members, for depriving Iran of a nuclear weapon. After all, what do you do with a misbehaving child who is threatening to use a toy to harm someone else? You take the toy away from him. The key to this collaboration will be multilateral consensus on what follows the deprivation. For God’s sake, we don’t want another occupation like Iraq.
It used to be that the OpEd page of the Journal was a haven of intelligent sanity in the views expressed in the paper. Now the selected writers adhere to a uniform position on domestic and world affairs. They all seem to be acolytes of well-funded conservative advocacy organizations like Freedom’s Watch. The wealthy megalomaniac, Mr. Murdoch, is cleverly reducing the cost of influencing opinion in the U.S. and beyond by relying on tax exempt suppliers of editorial comment to fill the Journal’s editorial pages.
Ever since the Rupert Murdoch purchase of the Wall Street Journal, I’m sure that many have been monitoring the editorial pages, as well as the paper’s news coverage, for their reflection of a further reactionary drift, if not a tendency towards sensationalism. The September 29-30, 2007, issue carried an OpEd article by Dan Senor that made a case for intervening in Iran to stop its leaders from leveraging its potential nuclear weapons power to influence regional geopolitics.
Secret collaboration must be under discussion now between the world’s great powers, including the Security Council permanent members, for depriving Iran of a nuclear weapon. After all, what do you do with a misbehaving child who is threatening to use a toy to harm someone else? You take the toy away from him. The key to this collaboration will be multilateral consensus on what follows the deprivation. For God’s sake, we don’t want another occupation like Iraq.
It used to be that the OpEd page of the Journal was a haven of intelligent sanity in the views expressed in the paper. Now the selected writers adhere to a uniform position on domestic and world affairs. They all seem to be acolytes of well-funded conservative advocacy organizations like Freedom’s Watch. The wealthy megalomaniac, Mr. Murdoch, is cleverly reducing the cost of influencing opinion in the U.S. and beyond by relying on tax exempt suppliers of editorial comment to fill the Journal’s editorial pages.
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