Mitchell Zuckoff, a journalism professor at Boston University, writes in the Saturday Boston Globe that those assessing News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch‘s bid for Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, need to remember former owner Clarence Barron.
“Contrast that with the fears of the Journal’s current union, which predicted that a Murdoch takeover would mean ‘gutting the enterprise and slashing the staff that make it the leading financial news organization.’
“These days, Murdoch is sometimes called ‘the world’s most powerful media executive.’ In that sense, if few others, he fits one Barron dictum that should guide his heirs in the weeks to come: ‘If you must pick a fight, pick only worthy adversaries.'”
Read more here. What Zuckoff ignores is the fact that Barron liked for his reporters to write positive stories about stocks that he owned, a trait that was well-documented in numerous books about The Journal. In addition, at least two Journal reporters under Barron’s ownership were caught accepting money from PR people to promote stocks in articles.
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