Roy Greensland liked my last comment about Murdoch.
Well… here’s another cheap shot.
This one is from an art director (a very bad one if this is what he produces) from The New York Times.
Let me just add one thing:
The Bancroft family is the same one that, for decades, produced a very poor Wall Street Journal.
The credit for the most recent one belongs to Barney Kilgore, who, in the 50′s, changed this newspaper for ever.
He was a great editor.
Dow Jones earned more than $13 million in 1966, the last full year of Kilgore’s tenure, compared with some $211,000 in 1945, when he officially became chief executive.
So… the Bancrofts and the Wall Street Journal don’t need to be afraid of Rupert Murdoch.
They need to be worried about bad editors and bad publishers.
Rupert Murdoch is not an outsider.
He is us.
As good and as bad as all of us in this industry could be.
But he speaks our language.
Not the language of the financial or real state moguls who want to control Dow Jones now.