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Well, this is fucking interesting - the Wall Street Journal has been fraudulently boosting circulation numbers by "channelling money through European companies in order to secretly buy thousands of copies of its own paper at a knock-down rate, misleading readers and advertisers about the Journal's true circulation."
Guardian piece: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/…
Charlie Stross also weighs in: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/…
And this particular observation from Mr. Stross is the kicker: "the affected group is Dow Jones. NewsCo sold 90% of their stake in the business to CME Corp in February 2010, very shortly after this scheme ran into trouble. People are going to start wondering if the Dow Jones indices have been rigged in any way."
One arm of Murdoch enterprise taps phone lines, another now is shown to cook the books.