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Senators Rockefeller, Boxer Want Dow Jones News Service and the WSJ Investigated

Senators John D. (Jay) Rockefeller (D-WV) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) called for a thorough investigation of Dow Jones News Service and the Wall Street Journal amid ongoing revelations of illegal activities by News Corporation's largest United Kingdom publication,  
 
The Senators issued their call in a joint press release and letter to the Dow Jones Special Committee on journalistic integrity made part of the Murdoch acquisition. The committee was created to oversee acquisition and assure that DJNS and the WSJ not suffer degraded integrity and journalistic standards due to the sale of the properties to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. (Image: Guardian "denials" video)
 
Boxer and Rockefeller cited a recent report, July 20, from the British House of Commons on the Murdoch scandals involving. The full report can be found here, Report: Unauthorised tapping or hacking of mobile communications  
 

Columbia Journalism Review Assesses Failure of Business Press to Warn of Crises

Cross-posted from epluribusmedia.net.

Hat tip to lambert on correntewire for providing the link to the latest cover story in the Columbia Journalism Review, Power Problem: The business press did everything but take on the institutions that brought down the financial system, by Dean Starkman.