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August 01, 2007
Seraphic Secret, Jake Novak , Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story
We've been waiting to let you in on Seraphic Secret's secret connection to the Rupert Murdoch takeover of the Wall Street Journal.
Here it is: Jake Novak, frequent Seraphic Secret contributor and commenter has accepted a position as an Senior Producer at the FOX Business Network. There, he looks forward to helping Rupert take over the world.
When Jake is not shaking up the FOX Business Network, he will be calling Football Broadcasts for Columbia University.
Jake has been a good friend to Seraphic Secret since we went online over three years ago. He and his lovely wife Adar paid a shiva call in Brooklyn after Karen's father died last year. From Jake, almost daily, there have been too many notes of support and good cheer to count.
Such friends are indeed rare.
We wish Jake the best of luck in his new job and sincerely hope that he still has time to send us his Ten Best lists and grace Seraphic Secret with his fine and articulate comments.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at August 1, 2007 02:00 PM
Comments
Seraphic Secret is private property, that's right, it's an extension of our home, and as such, Karen and I have instituted two Seraphic Rules and we ask commentors to act respectfully.
1. No profanity.2. No Israel bashing. We debate, we discuss, we are respectful. You know what Israel bashing is. The world is full of it. Seraphic Secret is one of the few places in the world that will not tolerate this form of anti-Semitism. That's it. Break either of these rules and you will be banned.
Debbie Schlussel has reservations about the Murdoch takeover:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/08/get_ready_for_p.html#comments
Posted by: kishke at August 1, 2007 02:41 PM
Kishke:
Thanks so much for the link. That is pretty disturbing. All we can do is monitor the network and see what happens, and if things get bad, we'll have Jake run interference. He's our, um, Esther.
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at August 1, 2007 03:04 PM
Isn't it nice when the people we value experience the success we feel they deserve? It means that something is going right with the world.
Posted by: Bookworm at August 1, 2007 08:53 PM
Bookworm:
It is very nice when people we value move up in the world. We schep nachas with our many Seraphic friends.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at August 2, 2007 12:22 AM
Thanks so much for those kind words. This is an exciting time for me and my family and I hope I can devote enough time to each of my important endeavors.
As far as FOX Biz and terror sympathies, let me make this official comment: Not gonna happen.
However, since we did buy the WSJ, I can announce that FOX Biz will be only in Black & White and we'll use dot-matrix video exclusively.
Posted by: Jake at August 2, 2007 06:20 AM
When Murdoch bought the Times of London there were the predictable predictions of doom for that institution. But from what I can glean nothing untoward happened did it?
Posted by: soccer dad at August 2, 2007 08:25 AM
WSJ's editorial pages have always been pro-Israel (or, more accurately, pro-common sense). Their news round-up on the front page is another story. There's an anti-Israel bias there; I stopped reading it some years ago b/c it just ticked me off so much.
Posted by: kishke at August 2, 2007 09:18 AM
Mazal Tov to Jake.
Posted by: Jack at August 2, 2007 10:22 AM
Hmmm - maybe now Jake can submit some of his material to Fox's Half-Hour News Hour?
Posted by: ralphie at August 2, 2007 01:29 PM
Jake,
LOL...I subscribe to the WSJ Online....
I love those pixelated photos..
Posted by: Lance at August 2, 2007 04:17 PM
Thanks to Robert and all Seraphic friends for your kind words of support and enthusiasm about Jake's new post. It's wonderful to know so many people are as proud of him as our daughter, Jordan, and I are!
Posted by: Mrs. Jake at August 2, 2007 05:09 PM
Sounds like a neat job opportunity Jake. Good luck!
Posted by: Fern at August 2, 2007 07:35 PM
"I love those pixelated photos."
I think they're portraits, not photos.
Posted by: kishke at August 2, 2007 08:36 PM