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Murdoch to Wall Street Journal DC bureau: No agenda here

Michael Calderone of Politico writes Tuesday that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and new Wall Street Journal publisher Robert Thomson visited the paper’s Washington bureau last week and said he will have no political agenda in the paper’s content.

Calderone wrote, “For roughly 90 minutes, Murdoch and Thomson spoke to Journal reporters and editors assembled in the paper’s conference room, which also doubles as a reading room strewn with sofas and chairs.

“At a leisurely pace, Murdoch answered many questions from the group, which included bureau chief John Bussey and executive Washington editor Gerald Seib.

“‘It was a great meeting,’ Seib told me by phone Monday, declining to discuss internal specifics. ‘Everyone left feeling happy.’

“Really? Could Journal reporters—many who strongly opposed the Dow Jones sale—be content with their first encounter with Murdoch?”

Read more here.

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