News Hound

When you go around buying up every newspaper you can get your hands on, sooner or later one of them is going to protest. Recently, when news got out that a certain media mogul wanted to buy The Wall Street Journal, editors there called friends and reporters at The New York Times and begged them to do something about it. How else to stop a fishy move made possible only by the power of money and sought out only in the interests of greed? One such editor was recently overheard:

• Go help! Murdoch's a cash cod rumple hog.