And now another gem from TMV’s favorite artist of verse, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet:
Dow Murd
By Robert Silverstein
Ruppert Murdoch’s made his bones
He¹s gobbled up Dow Jones;
The word’s out now (you’ve surely heard)
That soon they’ll call the place Dow Murd.
Copyright 2007 Robert Silverstein
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.