It’s no secret among people who have been following Rupert Murdoch’s bid to purchase Dow Jones which owns The Wall Street Journal that the New York Times has been against the deal and has lost in its effort to stop it.

It’s also no secret among people who are honest with themselves that the New York Times is no lover of the GOP or of Rudy Giuliani.

Therefore, it comes as no surprise to me that, absent the headline on the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, the New York Times would have had its page one headline today be what has been pushed down on the page a bit: “In Fox News, Giuliani Finds a Friendly Stage”.

So WHAT? Is it a crime for someone to appear on a news channel more than someone else? (more…)