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Commented on Going down hard
The Dow Jones Index is indeed fairly easy to calculate. The other products of Dow Jones - all of whose credibility is now trashed, because the apparent ability to buy "news" stories in at least one of them - are...
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Charlie Stross commented on
Going down hard
I would guess that either it's "old" news (because the Grauniad broke it first), or because (wearing paranoid hat here) certain folks really don't want to see the WSJ go down with all hands during a period of maximum instability, and quiet phone calls have been made....
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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A thought on Glen Murie's comment @ 64 "Rotting from the top" - yes, well, what about the most corrupt organisation on the planet, then? Which is also one of the longest-lived. The RC church. Um. But then: A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia-man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, forever. Perhaps that's why such an evil survives?...
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Charlie Stross commented on
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Greg: you're derailing the discussion, which is about News Corporation, not any other festering den of iniquity. Kindly desist from dragging your pet hobby-horses into the wrong stable?...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
Going down hard
Charlie (& others) Maybe it IS one of my pet hobby-horses, but, I included a quote. Form another SF author, in fact, whom Charlie knows personally, though I've never met him. Is it difficult to guess who? And Dave Bell's coment is apposite. That is precisely why I made my remark in the first place.... "Only the Thought Police mattered" Precisely. Persistent "Propaganda" ( And who invented THAT word - oh dear!) will wear most people down. Perhaps the Kanes Murdochs will come unstuck - apparently several US directors (etc) of NewsCorp want the M's to go away .... A...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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Typo FAIL in my previous post - oops. Latest is apparently, that the US big pension funds are pressuring the Murdochs to leave NewsCorp See here Good stuff....
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