[Am-info] Fwd: FW: "Media Unstatesmanship" - letter to the editor (Jan. 28)

[mike stephen]

FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA

Thought you may be interested in the enclosed letter
to the Wall Street 
Journal editor.

Bob Dj.


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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:02:26 -0700


MEDIA UNSTATESMANSHIP

Subject: A letter to the editor re. "Corporate
Unstatesmanship" - a WSJ 
editorial (Jan. 28, 2002)

Dear Ned,

You should change the title of your Jan. 28 editorial
from "Corporate 
Unstatesmanship" (Review & Outlook, Jan. 28) to "Media

Unstatesmanship."  For, the Journal is guilty of
everything of which it 
accuses AOL and its chairman, Steve Case.

"The AOL Time Warner chairman made it clear several
years ago he was
more 
interested in pursuing his company's advantage in
Washington than in the

marketplace," you write.

The Wall Street Journal made it clear over several
years of its
unceasing 
support of Microsoft's monopolistic practices that it
is more interested
in 
defending Bill Gates' than its readers' interests.

"You don't have to be Bill Gates to wonder if the
latest (Netscape)
lawsuit 
is aimed at supporting the nine state attorneys
general who've been
trying 
to scuttle Justice's attempts to settle the federal
government's
Microsoft 
suit," you write.

No, you don't.  You don't have to be Bill Gates to
know who his media 
flunkies are.  All you need to do is read the Journal
editorials on
"U.S. 
vs. Microsoft."

"Bill Lockyer, the California AG who claims credit for
rallying the 
renegades, might as well be on Mr. Case's payroll,"
you write.

The Wall Street Journal editorial scribes might as
well be on Mr. Gates'

payroll.  They've written enough laudatory prose over
the years to have 
bested even the Microsoft antitrust lawyers.

By the way, while on the subject of who is on whose
payroll, why not 
disclose in your next editorial the Microsoft vs. AOL
ad spending with
the 
Journal and other Dow Jones properties?  Then your
readers wouldn't have
to 
wonder about who is calling the tune of the Journal's
pipers.

As for Steve Case, at least he is making his own case
with his own 
money.  You, on the other hand, seem to be making Bill
Gates' case with 
Bill Gates' money.  A case of "Media Unstatesmanship?"

Best regards,

Bob Djurdjevic
President

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