I just don’t know why I thought of Blazing Saddles when I noticed the Dow Jones PR counter offensive in the broadening News Corp scandal……;-)

In fact folks I thought of this quote when I read today’s Wall Street Journal.

I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers, and Methodists!

This WSJ story in particular.

News Corp. is attempting to do on U.S. soil what it failed to accomplish in London: contain the damage of a scandal over dubious reporting tactics at one of its British tabloids.

The New York-based media conglomerate is looking for outside reinforcements in investor relations, policy relations and public relations to help handle the impact of the scandal domestically, according to people familiar with the matter. Continue reading “I just don’t know why I thought of Blazing Saddles when I noticed the Dow Jones PR counter offensive in the broadening News Corp scandal……;-)”