
For the second time since 1982, the
Wall Street Journal parody,
Off the Wall Street Journal, is published by
New York Press. The first parody and its follow-up issue sold more than 650,000 copies. Now it has been renamed to
My Wall Street Journal to honor "
Rupert Murdoch's ever-expanding media empire which now includes everything from
MySpace to the Wall Street Journal."
Founding editor-in-chief
Tony Hendra, former editor of
National Lampoon and
Spy Magazine, returns with fellow '82 veteran
David Blum,
Todd Hanson from
The Onion, and
Jeff Kreisler from
Comedy
Central's Indecision 2008. Other contributors include writers for
The Daily Show,
Saturday Night Live,
and the
Harvard Lampoon.
The tabloid is 24 pages and has the tagline "We Distort, You Decide" with sections such as a gossip section, "Obitcharies," and "Police blotter - A day in the life of the white-collar crime cops."
My Wall Street Journal is now available for a cover price of $3.95
on their website,
Amazon.com, and in newsstands and bookstores in major cities.
According to
The New York Times, someone at The Wall Street Journal has left at least one
newsstand with no copies remaining for anyone else to buy. He reportedly wore a shirt with a WSJ logo and paid with an
American Express business card.
"He grabbed them all, said, 'I need to buy all of these,' " Alexander Laurence who was working at a Los Angeles stand said. "He had been going around to different stands, buying
them."
There is also
a spoof of Rupert Murdoch on a profanity-laced tirade against WSJ staffers, available on Youtube.
Source:
Poynter Online,
New York Times