Saturday, July 14, 2007

The New Yorker discusses Murdoch's take-over of The Wall Street Journal

"The prospect of a Murdoch takeover of the Wall Street Journal has already produced repercussions at the paper. According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, Americans consider the Journal their most credible newspaper. Yet a senior executive at the paper says, “Even before anything happens, there has been so much publicity about this that there are issues with our readers and advertisers. . . . We don’t yet know how best to deal with that issue, or how big an issue it is.”

Promises, Promises
What might the Wall Street Journal become if Rupert Murdoch owned it?
by Ken Auletta

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