| Yet another scandal for Murdoch's News Corp. The Murdoch-owned Dow Jones announced that the publisher of The WSJ's European edition was resigning, without mentioning why. The next day, The WSJ reported that the top European exec stepped down after an internal ethics investigation found he had pressured reporters to write two positive stories about a Dutch firm with which the paper had an agreement that helped boost circulation figures...But that was just the beginning. The Guardian came out with a story by Nick Davies (broke hacking scandal), asserting further transgressions - that The Journal funneled its own money to the Dutch firm, Executive Learning Partnership, through middleman companies. In other words, WSJ was buying its own papers by proxy to boost rates it could charge advertisers. Murdoch execs knew in DEC and reacted by firing the whistleblower. |
Read the rest of the story HERE:
At www.propublica.org
At www.propublica.org
