New York Observer Michael Calderone says the Times has been covering the
Rupert Murdoch-Dow Jones story "obsessively" and wonders what was behind the multi-bureau
package that ran on Monday and Tuesday. Executive editor
Bill Keller's response: "Are you serious? Why would we take a close journalistic look at a powerful, controversial figure who is about to acquire one of the crown jewels of American journalism? [That's] our job. The pieces were well reported, utterly fair, and fascinating." ||
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