Matt Pottinger, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who is now a Marine serving in Iraq, writes an op-ed piece for the Washington Post that states that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has routinely meddled in media coverage of China, where he was a journalist.
As such, Pottinger warns that the same thing could happen if Murdoch was allowed to acquire Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal.
“Several days ago in western Iraq, an unseen guerrilla detonated a bomb moments after my fellow Marines and I had driven over it. Marines call near misses like this a ‘gut check.’ I know why I took certain risks working for the Journal, and I know why I take them as a Marine, and while I still haven’t figured out how to say it without sounding too earnest, high-minded and patriotic, I’ll say it anyway: Some things in America need to be protected, and none more than a free and intrepid press. Because no one exercises that role better than the Journal, the loss of its rigorous, undiluted reporting would be a hole in America’s heart deeper than that hole in the road.”
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