{"id":134,"date":"2007-06-23T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2007-06-23T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T16:00:29","slug":"dow-jones-independece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Dow Jones independece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writes Sarah Ellison of <em>The<\/em> <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"times\"><span class=\"times rolloverQuote\">Dow Jones<\/span> &amp; Co delivered a proposal to safeguard its editorial independence to <span class=\"times rolloverQuote\">News Corp<\/span> on Friday, the first step in a negotiation between the two companies about a possible takeover by News Corp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"times\">News Corp officials reacted coolly to the document, which outlines broad protections for The Wall Street Journal and other Dow Jones properties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"times\">It apparently &#8220;calls for a Special Committee on Editorial and Journalistic Independence and Integrity&#8221; and &#8220;would limit News Corp&#8217;s ability to control the use of The Wall Street Journal brand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck <strong>Dow Jones<\/strong>. Given Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s reputation for interfering with his publications&#8217; content, I&#8217;m fairly sure this is a non-starter. Expect a watered down version to emerge at the 11th hour as <strong>News Corp<\/strong> bids to clinch a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the (extremely short) story <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118255630483345364.html?mod=home_whats_news_us\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writes Sarah Ellison of The Wall Street Journal: Dow Jones &amp; Co delivered a proposal to safeguard its editorial independence to News Corp on Friday, the first step in a negotiation between the two companies about a possible takeover by News Corp. News Corp officials reacted coolly to the document, which outlines broad protections for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,29,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}