A new tabloid-format satire of the Wall Street Journal will go on sale this week, yet someone has already snatched all of them up from newsstands around L.A. The satire, called "My Wall Street Journal," "mostly sets out to skewer The Journal’s new owner, the News Corporation, and its chairman, Rupert Murdoch, with swipes at News properties like Fox News, The New York Post and The Journal itself." says the article. Last Thursday, a man with a Journal logo on his shirt came to a newsstand in L.A. and asked if they had any papers looking similar to the Journal. When the clerk found them, the man bought ALL of them with a corporate American Express, saying first that they had to make corrections, or that it wasn't ready to be sold yet, and finally said that it wasn't being put out by the Wall Street Journal.
I think it's pretty funny that the man kept saying different things while purchasing the satires. The article also said that the man had gone to different newsstands doing the same thing. I hope the people from the Journal don't try to purchase every copy, because I sure would like to see one. But if the Journal is trying to hide something that the satire is going to expose, I think they would be better off running something in their paper, as opposed to buying 250,000 copies of this thing.
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That is pretty interesting. I can't believe there isn't more coverage on this issue. It almost wouldn't surprise me to see the highest financial newspaper having hidden issues that they in-turn are trying to hide. I can't wait to see the outcome. Great article.
That is somewhat funny to hear a guy doing these things. There is a guy going to different newsstands and buying all of the paper similar to the Journal. I'm also surprised that the media haven't had more coverage on this story.
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