{"id":6068,"date":"2014-02-16T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pharma-mkting.com\/pharmalot-rip-redux-thoughts-on-ed\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:16:50","slug":"pharmalot-rip-redux-thoughts-on-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/pharmalot-rip-redux-thoughts-on-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmalot R.I.P. Redux: Thoughts on Ed Silverman Joining Rupert Murdoch’s WSJ Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>In case you haven’t heard, Ed Silverman — former creator and writer of Pharmalot blog — has joined The Wall Street Journal<\/i> pharma\/health team & will blog there.<\/p>\n

Scott Hensley formerly of the WSJ Health Blog once wrote:<\/p>\n

“This blog and Pharmalot, the brainchild of veteran pharma reporter Ed Silverman, have been friendly rivals since we both entered the blogosphere two years ago” (“Pharmalot, R.I.P.; Long Live, Ed Silverman.<\/a>“).<\/p>\n

That was back in 2009 when Ed left the Newark Star Ledger<\/i> and before he set up Pharmalot as an independent blog that I followed religiously.<\/p>\n

I wish Ed all the best, but I anticipate that I will not be reading his blog posts as frequently as I did when he was writing for Pharmalot.<\/p>\n

Read on to learn why.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Regular readers of the Wall Street Journal <\/i>may have noticed that lately it has lost its investigative journalism edge. It’s been a slow and subtle change after the Journal<\/i> was purchased by Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who also owns Fox News and who regularly hacked the phones of UK celebrities, royalty and public citizens — even the phone of a murdered teenage girl.<\/p>\n

Will there be the same slow and subtle change in Silverman’s investigative journalistic style to match the drivel that currently is published on the WSJ Health Blog? By which I mean, will we see posts like “Six Tips For Better Napping<\/a>” rather than the expos\u00e9s for which Ed was famous?<\/p>\n

I hope not.<\/p>\n

But one thing seems certain: Pharmalot is definitely dead this time. It’s not likely that Ed will be able to moonlight on the side while working for Murdoch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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