Murdoch on what he likes — and doesn't like — about the Journal

Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp. talked to the New York Times for a story published Friday about what he reads in The Wall Street Journal in the wake of his company’s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co., the parent of the Journal as well as Barron’s and Marketwatch.

Richard Siklos and Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote, “‘I’m sometimes frustrated by the long stories,’ he said, adding that he rarely gets around to finishing some articles.

“The editorial pages? He likes them but would like to see more political coverage in the news pages. ‘I might put more emphasis on Washington,’ he said. He’s not a huge fan of the Saturday Journal begun in 2005, but he would continue it and look at converting its Pursuits section into a glossy weekend magazine to compete with The New York Times Sunday Magazine.

“And while he’s no technology geek, he also said he regularly reads the paper’s technology columnist, Walter Mossberg, although he added: ‘I don’t say I understand it perfectly.'”

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