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By Nicholas Provenzo from The Rule of Reason,cross-posted by MetaBlog

You have to savor this Washington Post headline for an article on News Corporation's purchase of Dow & Jones & Co., for it beautifully encapsulates how voluntary trade in the free market is equated with bare-knuckled coercion. According to the Post, "Murdoch Seizes Wall St. Journal In $5 Billion Coup," but there's no word if he's had anybody lined up and shot.139972973

http://ObjectivismOnline.com/archives/002708.html

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By Nicholas Provenzo from The Rule of Reason,cross-posted by MetaBlog

You have to savor this Washington Post headline for an article on News Corporation's purchase of Dow & Jones & Co., for it beautifully encapsulates how voluntary trade in the free market is equated with bare-knuckled coercion. According to the Post, "Murdoch Seizes Wall St. Journal In $5 Billion Coup," but there's no word if he's had anybody lined up and shot.

http://ObjectivismOnline.com/archives/002708.html

It figures. Copy editors at my newspaper do this kind of thing sometimes, mostly when it's something politically charged. Most of the time our headlines are bad because the copy editors do not understand the story or don't pay attention to detail. I have to override their decisons from time to time. Once in a while the biases creep out and they have to be shoved back into the box.

If you really want to become dissolutioned with the media, visit NewsBusters.org or the Media Research Center's Business and Media Institute (BMI). Lots of examples there. Sometimes they go too far in their criticism but much of it is warranted.

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