Murdoch to launch Wall Street Journal in German

Die wiederaufbau der "Wall" auf alle Euro Strassen!

This piece of manipulative, egomaniacal, law breaking scum should not be allowed to set foot in Germany let alone pollute the media here. BOYCOTT!

If only people could look past the "sexiness" of Wall Street and see it for what it really is; a scam. It is a racket devised to siphon off money through varying and multiplicative methods that are made to look beneficial, but are really only so to the scammers. The Wall Street Journal was the newsletter for the exploiting class, with Murdoch's acquisition, it has become the newsletter of the heinously exploiting class.

Don't get me wrong, I am not an anti-capitalist, but wall street and the whole current financial industry is a racket. Alone the existence of Wall Street, or any centralized financial district for that matter, is proof that something not right in this day and age. In an information, digital age there is not good reason for so much financial "power" to be concentrated in any single area if it were not corrupt. The whole industry operates on creating as little transparency and real competition as possible and making sure that no one in the inside spills the beans. It is a hive of corruption and crime against people who actually work and are the ones who really drive any economy over the long run.

Wall Street does not like to hear that workers are actually the ones who fuel economies, because it is far more lucrative to run a scam on people than actually work for it. It is why all efforts to even look in the direction of workers rights, regulating the finance industry, unions, breaking up monopolies, forcing openness, etc.; are all resisted with "massive resistance" reminiscent of other American rackets like slavery. Rich white people who live off exploiting others do not like to be told they cannot exploit people.

At least if the WSJ were to enter the German market, the civil (even if sometimes a little too rigid rules governing news media) would possibly keep them under control. But mark my words, they would and probably are and have been working hard lobbying to break down all resistance to naked manipulation and support for exploitation, one chisel impact at a time.

The Wall Street Journal would have been what European monarchs would have been reading (the present version of which make up their core readership) because it extols the same values of exploitation, manipulation, racketeering.

Murdoch has admitted Manipulating the News for Agenda and admits he supported the Bush Agenda in Iraq ,his entrance into Germany most likely will be of value to him and his nefarious organization more than to Germany.

The mans a fascist, hates the EU (particularly the UK) and is very dangerous. He will manipulate the news to suit his political beliefs eg Fox Newsin the US which is a shrill extreme right wing news channel.He should be banned from Germany.

Murdoch go Home he is an AH

Put a Murdoch Block on your cellphone and tablets, email, snail mail, PCs and Apples! And beware conservative agendas!

@ expatriarch #3

Your rant needs some corrections/clarifications. No company is forced to get listed on the stock exchange. Those that do, must however make their financial statements public (so to increase transparency). If more transparency is needed, that's another story.

I also dislike Mr. Murdoch. However, let's not behave like the readers of "The Sun".

We really don't need this halfwit in Germany.

So, we are saying that he and George Soros have something in common namely greed but each from different political perspectives, eh?

I, like the other commenters, am sitting here in a pool of quivering sweat terrified that I will be forced to read the WSJ in german. I'm with the germans: keep out all foreign competitors....germany for germans.

Have any of you read the WSJ? It is a very good resource for investors. Before you claim I am some kind of elitist or something I am not. I am a law school student that paid for my undergraduate education, and am paying for my law school education. I invest to make extra money. It is not a "mouthpiece of the wealthy" or whatever other people call it. It is a vital resource for me to keep track of what is going on in markets. That being said if it is so "evil" dont read it.

On behalf of my country, I would like to apologise to the world for spawning Rupert Murdoch. @mkvgtired, a law school student who invests money to pay for university sounds - no offence intended - kind of elitist to me. Murdoch´s evil empire is a mouthpiece for extreme capitalism and right-wing conservatives. @BongoBern, I´m with you, Murdoch blocks alround!

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Finally! A balance to The Economist and Der Spiegel.

^^^^ this

Completely agree. If we are going to be subjected to extreme left wing trash like The Economist and Der Spiegel, then make it fair and allow some room for extreme right wing trash like Murdoch. Or better yet, get rid of all of them.