Rupert Murdoch is once again demonstrating that, as an owner of newsmedia, he is a shoot-from-the-hip journalistic ignoramous. His approach may be suited to his sleazy supermarket tabloids or the perpetually bankrupt N Y Post, but not to a respectable print news medium. If he wants so badly to own another newspaper and allow it to succeed, as the WSJ has for so many years, he should get out of the way, let the real journalists run the newspaper, go home, and count his money. But of course, his monstrous ego may not allow that until just MAYBE it might occur to him that he is totally inept in pretending to RUN, but is instead RUINING a great newspaper, and that he may end up have having to support yet another failing newspaper. If he loses enough pocket money on the WSJ venture, he may one day realize that he's more like a Hitler who thought he was a great general while he was losing the war. Self delusion and overabundant ego are a terrible combination.
Rupert Murdoch is once again demonstrating that, as an owner of newsmedia, he is a shoot-from-the-hip journalistic ignoramous. His approach may be suited to his sleazy supermarket tabloids or the perpetually bankrupt N Y Post, but not to a respectable print news medium. If he wants so badly to own another newspaper and allow it to succeed, as the WSJ has for so many years, he should get out of the way, let the real journalists run the newspaper, go home, and count his money. But of course, his monstrous ego may not allow that until just MAYBE it might occur to him that he is totally inept in pretending to RUN, but is instead RUINING a great newspaper, and that he may end up have having to support yet another failing newspaper. If he loses enough pocket money on the WSJ venture, he may one day realize that he's more like a Hitler who thought he was a great general while he was losing the war. Self delusion and overabundant ego are a terrible combination.