{"id":1614,"date":"2007-12-12T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/12\/rupe_says_nope\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T16:32:58","slug":"rupe_says_nope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/12\/rupe_says_nope.html","title":{"rendered":"Rupe Says &#8216;Nope&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/08\/leon_freilich_a.html\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"'Design Proposal No. 4' 'Nope.'\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/WSJ%20Proposal%20Number%204%20%28240%29.jpg\" width=240 align=right border=0 \/><\/a>Now that Rupert Murdoch has moved his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/07\/business\/media\/07dow.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>top guys<\/strong><\/font><\/a> into place to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/12\/business\/media\/12murdoch.html?ref=business\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>remake the Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, veterans at the paper who are familiar with the dithering of their previous corporate bosses can&#8217;t help marveling at his speed, decisiveness and personal involvement. &#8220;We know that&#8217;s his M.O., but it&#8217;s amazing to see,&#8221; one Dow Jones exec is quoted as saying in today&#8217;s New York Times. Meanwhile, nervous WSJ reporters and editors were heartened by the wisdom of Rupe&#8217;s one-word decision to reject at least one plan to remake the paper. It circulated in the newsroom as Design Proposal No. 4.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n(Just kidding, of course. The graphic is part of a 2002 ad campaign that introduced a WSJ redesign when color was added to Page One. To build suspense &#8212; and to reassure readers that the Journal wasn&#8217;t going to change character &#8212; fake mockups appeared in advertisements showing rejected designs.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>top guys into place to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-q2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}