The Wall Street Journal’s editorial about owner Rupert Murdoch and former CEO Les Hinton is an excellent example of what’s gone horribly wrong at the paper: Review & Outlook: News and Its Critics.

It’s a very defensive piece, full of strange writing and non sequiturs — but most of all, full of that patented Murdoch attitude. This could be an editorial at foxnews.com.

We also trust that readers can see through the commercial and ideological motives of our competitor-critics. The Schadenfreude is so thick you can’t cut it with a chainsaw. Especially redolent are lectures about journalistic standards from publications that give Julian Assange and WikiLeaks their moral imprimatur. They want their readers to believe, based on no evidence, that the tabloid excesses of one publication somehow tarnish thousands of other News Corp. journalists across the world.