Rupert Murdoch Cans Wall Street Journal First Amendment Lawyer
The Wall Street Journal's longtime and well-liked First Amendment lawyer was fired by a Dow Jones senior executive, a recent hire by Rupert Murdoch.
The lawyer, Stuart Karle, had been with the newspaper since 1992. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Karle was called into the office of Dow Jones' counsel, Mark Jackson, who was formerly the associate chief counsel of HarperCollins and was made the chief counsel of Dow Jones on Dec. 17, two workdays after Mr. Murdoch closed on his sale of the company.
Mr. Karle was told he was fired and he had to leave the paper by the end of March, according to a person familiar with the situation. Two newsroom sources said that the paper's managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, had no say in the decision.
The Journal newsroom today, described one staffer, is "stunned."
"We're pissed," said another. "Stuart understands our culture, he comes from within our culture. Why is Murdoch bringing in someone from HarperCollins? Symbolically, it's a bad move. It doesn't give you a lot of confidence that Murdoch really values the culture of this place."
Mr. Karle, when reached by phone, confirmed that he was fired and added: "I love all the work I've done here."
"Stuart understands our culture, he comes from within our culture. Why is Murdoch bringing in someone from Harper Collins? Symbolically, it's a bad move. It doesn't give you a lot of confidence that Murdoch really values the culture of this place."
Poor baby. The owner wants his own culture, not the one symbolized by a "well-liked" lawyer and this stunned staffer.
Does the whining EVER stop at WSJ? For people who write such sophisticated journalism, I am stunned that their personal world view is so stunted and immature.
That's what owners do: shape companies the way they want, not the way a bunch of cry babies want.
Get over it already or just get out and go work in a j-school.
Why are people so shocked that News Corp. would begin to instill its own executives at the top of the pyramid? This is what good businesspeople - the likes of which have never run Dow Jones - do.
It's fun to watch all these editorial executives who have schemed their way through the undulating wormpile at WSJ now find their paths blocked and all their kneecapping and backstabbing (which is what the culture there breeds) all for naught. Now that Brauchli has been neutered, those up for a little sport ought to watch the rest of the paper's masthead twist and turn. Dan Hertzberg, who used to be Steiger's number two and had day to day control over lots of the paper's operations, is waiting it out til retirement in Europe. What happens to all the other assistant and deputy managing editors Brauchli lined up?
For that matter, what's in store for all the digital overlords at DJ/WSJ? Does a company that owns MySpace really need Dow Jones's web-traffic-losing, search-engine-underoptimizing digital gurus?
Just some things to hink upon.
Regretting the loss of Stuart isn't ill-informed whining. Yes, Mr. Murdoch gets to remake the business side as he sees fit, but he should also recognize the difference between dead wood and brilliance. Stuart is a tremendous asset to the paper and the company. It's possible his replacement will be as well, but that's no reason not to deplore the firing of one of the best lawyers any media organization ever had.
Fair dinkum!
Give Mr. Karle a vegemite sandwich, and he can go on holiday to Australia and unwind.
'Is there someone knocking on my door. Who can it be now?' Try Mr. Mark Jackson.
Mr. Karle can buy some MEN AT WORK albums. It looks like Mr. Karle will have lots of time to hear MEN AT WORK tunes, when he's not at work.
Everyone loves Aussies!
Too much Foster's Beer! I got the lyrics mixed up a bit.
Fremantle Doctor, where are you? Mr. Murdoch should see the Fremantle Doctor. Really!
I enjoyed the article the other day about antidepressants. It's about time Mr. Murdoch takes something.
It isn't a question of culture. Karle defended WSJ and won cases. That was his job. And he did it damn well. Hard to understand how a performance-oriented company like News Corp would see fault with that or want more.
Exemplary employees should be retained, but new corporate owners often do things their way. Multimillionaire, or billionaire tycoons, seemingly care little how disruptive job terminations are to indviduals and families. Finding a commensurate job, with comparable pay, was fairly easy in the mid-1990s but that's not the case today.
Aggressive and ruthless owners probably have little use for well-respected and well-liked employees.
It's very possible Murdoch may regret his decision to buy the WSJ. Eight-years of bad and misguided economic policy, at the hands of George W. Bush, will have far-reaching implications.
Stuart Karle is one of the finest assets the WSJ has ever had. There is no better media lawyer. It is truly unfortunate that the new owners of the WSJ are so ill-informed as to throw away this asset. It does not bode well for the Journal. Stuart's loyalty and stellar service deserved a far better reward.
I hired Stuart Karle for Dow Jones in 1992 to handle litigation, including First Amendment matters. His legal skills are impeccable, of course; but his judgment and devotion were what he will be most remembered for. Sorry for the paper.
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