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That's
Eugene Robinson's position. "In an ideal world, the Bancrofts wouldn't let
Rupert Murdoch within a mile of the Journal. But this is hardly an ideal world, as far as the newspaper business is concern," he writes. "The surest way to destroy the great newspaper [the Bancroft] family has owned for more than a century would be to seek out some other billionaire, a 'white knight' on a valiant steed, to buy the paper instead. If they're going to sell, they almost certainly should sell to Murdoch." ||
Edward Glaeser: "Murdoch has always shown himself to be more interested in profits than politics."
