” ‘The track record shows that Rupert Murdoch is nothing if not bold,’ said Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst at the Poynter Institute, a non-profit journalism school based in Florida. ‘I don’t think it’s entirely surprising for him to be leading the way.’
Frequently accused in the past of promoting tabloid journalism, Murdoch is ‘sometimes villified for the wrong reasons,’ according to Edmonds. ‘There’s quite a degree of respect for him as an operator.’ ”