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Re:Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch ... by stochastic_monk on Monday November 27, 2017 @02:14AM (#15785443)
If conservative billionaires are alike, the way WSJ has tanked since being bought by Murdoch portends that Time will be a disaster.

(For example, it started peddling "Mueller needs to resign" nonsense after the indictments under easily falsifiable excuses.)

[See https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/murdoch-fox-muelle...]

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Re:Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch ... by Bahamut on Monday November 27, 2017 @06:12AM (#15786477)
WSJ has always pedalled some dubious editorials like that, even before acquisition. I’d be curious to know what other differences there are though since they were acquired.
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Re:Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch ... by lghh on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:14AM (#15787010)
Like most people, I'm sure no two conservative billionaires are alike.
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Re:Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch ... by gozur88 on Monday November 27, 2017 @11:41AM (#15788631)
Sadly, while Murdock's people made the WSJ less of a quality paper, it's one of the few that still makes money, and that probably wouldn't have been the case without the changes.
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Re:Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch ... by fjsolwmv on Monday November 27, 2017 @12:08PM (#15788905)
WSJ has always been famous for hard news and right-wing editorial page. They use the hardnews to lend credibility to their editorial.
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Re:Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch ... by adventured on Monday November 27, 2017 @02:40AM (#15785530)
What have the WSJ's subscriber numbers done since Murdoch purchased it?
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Re:Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch ... by 1337biz on Monday November 27, 2017 @03:53AM (#15785812)
Needs to be viewed also in context to the market.
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