“Critics all over the world are using the News of the World scandal as an opportunity to do what should have been done years ago,” Rolling Stone’s avenging angel Matt Taibbi writes, “which is indict Rupert Murdoch in the court of public opinion.”
Thus begins an ARTINFO piece on how conservatism stunted the WSJ’s art coverage. Rather than an exception to Taibbi’s rule, ARTINFO became one of the many groups piling on in wake of the phone hacking scandal. Certainly Murdoch deserves the notoriety he now enjoys yet there’s something unseemly about the timing of the piece even if I generally agree with it.
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