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title: "WSJ Running Scared: A Steve Jobs Secret Diary Classic"
date: 2007-05-04T13:33:15Z
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> “I’d love to see those right-wing hate mongers hoist by their own petard, taken over by someone who’s even more right-wing and brutal than they are. Suddenly these bigshot free-market reporters who always talk tough about layoffs when it’s GM or IBM now are running scared. Of course they say they’re wringing their hands about the “quality of the paper” and “editorial integrity” but come on — they’re worried because they know the place is 30% overstaffed and the Bancrofts have let that go on because they don’t really care about making money.”

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: [God I hope Murdoch Buys The Journal](http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/05/god-i-hope-murdoch-buys-journal.html)