The Reality-Based Community

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

  • Home
  • About
  • BOTEC Analysis
You are here: Home / If it’s broke, don’t fix it.

If it’s broke, don’t fix it.

August 7, 2007 By Mark Kleiman @markarkleiman

When Winston Churchill’s lunatic reactionary son Randolph had a tumor biopsy that came back benign, Evelyn Waugh remarked, “It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.”

It looks as if Rupert Murdoch has done the reverse: he’s taken the one part of the Wall Street Journal that desperately needed changing, and promised not to change it. Paul BGigot, who’s down with using violence to steal elections, will remain in complete command of the editorial page. The news operation, which is a national treasure, is completely open to Murdoch’s depredations.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Wayward press

Blogroll

  • Balloon Juice
  • The Belgravia Dispatch
  • Brad DeLong
  • Cop in the ‘hood
  • Crooked Timber
  • Crooks and Liars
  • Echidne of the Snakes
  • Firedoglake
  • A Fistful of Euros
  • Healthinsurance.org Blog
  • Horizons
  • How Appealing
  • The Incidental Economist
  • Informed Comment — Juan Cole
  • Jonathan Bernstein
  • Kevin Drum
  • Marginal Revolution — Tyler Cowen
  • Marijuana Monitor
  • The Moderate Voice
  • Obsidian Wings
  • Patheos
  • Philosoraptor
  • Plato o Plomo — Alejandro Hope
  • Political Animal
  • Politics Upside Down
  • Progressive Blog Digest
  • Progressive Blue
  • Slacktivist
  • Snopes
  • Strange Doctrines
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Volokh Conspiracy (Washington Post)
  • Vox Pop

Recent Posts

  • Weekend Film Recommendation: Act of Violence
  • Sex, the Secretary, and Starr
  • Cannabis News Round-Up
  • Percentages and the pastrami panic…
  • Do professors care whether college students are actually learning?

Archives

Topic Areas

Copyright © 2017 The Reality-Based Community  •  Designed & Developed by ReadyMadeWeb LLC