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It’s also a rank-and-file one—to the degree that journalists at The Wall Street Journal, the Times, The New Yorker, Slate, and the Columbia Journalism Review, sinecure holders at the nation’s journalism schools, and the biographer Tina Brown, that paragon of journalistic virtue (who jumped in to say that Murdoch’s owning the Journal would be “a horror show”), are rank-and-file.

sinecure (n) 1: a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached; 2: an office that involves minimal duties – Murdoch’s Private Game

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