Remember the assurances made by Rupert Murdoch about editorial independence and trying not to change the Wall Street Journal all that much? Well, changes are a coming to the paper. Today, Stuart Karle, the general counsel for the WSJ since 1992, was fired and was given till the end of March to pack up.

One staff was quoted saying, "It doesn't give you a lot of confidence that Murdoch really values the culture of this place."