Schanberg Reports
Sydney Schanberg reprints his 1982 "Tasmanian Devil" column about
Rupert Murdoch (which got him in hot water with
Arthur Sulzberger Sr.), and makes it clear he hasn't changed his mind about the News Corp. chief over the years. "Rarely has a man made false promises and told lies so effortlessly," writes Schanberg. "Now Murdoch, as he prepares to take over the Wall Street Journal, is promising to preserve that paper’s superior level of journalism, maintain its integrity and keep ideology out of the newsroom. We never knew he was such a joke-teller."
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Yount: "Bad for journalism, bad for readers, bad for advertisers" (Salon)
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Carr: NYT has covered the story fully, fairly and enthusiastically (CNN)
