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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Monkey

WSJ boss Robert Thomson 'boos' Olympic badminton 'losers'

Wall street journal's homemade highlights
Wall street journal goes Blue Peter with 'Homemade Highlights'.

The Guardian has its brick-by-brick Olympic events. And the Wall Street Journal is getting round restrictions on running London 2012 Olympics video online with "Homemade Highlights", using homemade stick puppets to recreate key moments. The WSJ has recreated the Olympic badminton scandal, complete with sound effects – in this case, largely the crowd booing – provided by none other than managing editor, Robert Thomson. The former Times editor is even credited as "sound effects supervisor" in the credits. Monkey can't want for Robbo's impression of his boss Rupert Murdoch cheering on the swimmers, when he and Wendi attend the Olympics on Friday night as VIP guests of Boris "zip wire" Johnson.

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