Just imagine the possibilities.

Rupert Murdoch, who's given us such wonderful things as the all-Republican, all-screaming, all-the-time Fox News Network, wants to take over the Wall Street Journal.

Sounds like a wonderful opportunity. Just imagine how useful it would be to talk stock prices up or down through centralized control of editorial "talking points".

Surely the staid, just-the-facts approach of the WSJ could be made more appealing by adding, say, full-color front page coverage of Girls Gone Wild! and bloody car wrecks to the front page, matched with heroic profiles of such noble culture warriors as Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly bravely defending American decency against the wicked hordes of evil libruls who Hate America, caused 9/11, and look French.

Here's one take on a possible Murdoch-controlled WSJ. Other visions are possible. Either way, its intellectual and financial credibility would instantaneously vanish.