{"id":1622,"date":"2010-01-24T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T01:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T01:39:13","slug":"after-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/24\/after-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"After the End"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>Daniel Golden, former WSJ writer<\/i>: One of the tragedies of the sale of the Journal is that it never aroused the public outrage that the sale of the New York Times would have, right? I think people looked at it and said, &#8220;Big deal. A right-wing tycoon is buying a right-wing newspaper.&#8221; But the reality was that for those of us in the news operation it didn&#8217;t feel like a right-wing newspaper. It felt like a great, independent, muckraking, thoughtful news and analysis operation that played an indispensable role in American society. People who weren&#8217;t familiar with the paper didn&#8217;t realize it was an awful lot more than an editorial page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the end of last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/news-politics\/big-issues\/200912\/wall-street-journal-rupert-murdoch?printable=true&#038;currentPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">family members, staff, ex-staff, and several anonymice remarked on the sale of <i>The Wall Street Journal<\/i> to Rupert Murdoch<\/a>. Daniel Golden in particular says a lot of what I was thinking as I watched the sale and have watched the paper change&mdash;particularly becoming more diffuse and less interesting in its coverage. Also, I can&#8217;t quite believe I just linked to GQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Golden, former WSJ writer: One of the tragedies of the sale of the Journal is that it never aroused the public outrage that the sale of the New York Times would have, right? I think people looked at it and said, &#8220;Big deal. A right-wing tycoon is buying a right-wing newspaper.&#8221; But the reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[540,808,838,840,871,1323],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-gq","tag-murdoch","tag-news","tag-newspapers","tag-oral-history","tag-wsj"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-qa","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}