Dan Gainor writes that “The call from the Ivory Tower just wasn’t strong enough to stop media mogul Rupert Murdoch from buying Dow Jones & Company. But, it came really close”:
“Murdoch also said the media’s harsh coverage of him during negotiations with the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones, almost squashed the deal,” wrote New York Post reporter Peter Lauria in the August 9 New York Post.
From the time negotiations were made public in April until the time the deal was announced on August 1, Murdoch took cheap shot after cheap shot by many of the talking heads in the media.
“I spent the better part of the past three months enduring criticism normally leveled at a genocidal tyrant,” Murdoch said.
Murdoch could have avoided all of this if he simply had hired Ramsey Clark as his lead attorney and spokesman.
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