Tina on Murdoch



Update: Rupert has not bought the WSJ (as previously reported; sorry). Tins Brown, who has a tangled history with Rupert Murdoch, has a fgew things to say about what a Murdoch-owned WSJ might mean. From FT:

"Like Diana, Brown married into royalty, in her case the newspaper variety. Harry Evans, one of the most revered figures in British journalism, had just been made editor of The Times - by its new owner, Rupert Murdoch - when they married in 1981. But Sir Harry, as he is now, was forced out months later and bitterly attacked Murdoch’s stewardship of the paper. He famously claimed Murdoch dismissed the measures put in place to prevent him interfering with The Times’ editorial content as 'not worth the paper they are written on”.

"So, when I ask Brown about the prospect of Murdoch owning The Wall Street Journal, her reply is hardly surprising: 'It would be a horror show. Very sad.' But why would Murdoch do anything to the Journal that would undermine its value? “They said that about The Times.”