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