Rupert and The Review

The Hoot carried this interesting piece

Rupert and The Review

As part of its campaign against Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of Dow Jones, The Columbia Journalism Review has produced a Rupert Reader

A RUPERT READER

Rupert Murdoch may or may not purchase Dow Jones and thus run The Wall Street Journal. We think it's a bad idea, and invite you to check our reasoning:First, in the editorial from our new July issue, we tell a tale about a frog and a scorpion:http://www.cjr.org/editorial/its_his_nature.php

Second, our Dean Starkman rounds up the business-press coverage of Murdoch (notably in the Journal itself) and contends that a News Corp.-owned Journal cannot cover certain problems of modern capitalism because News Corp. exemplifies those very problems.Second, our Dean Starkman rounds up the business-press coverage of Murdoch (notably in the Journal itself) and contends that a News Corp.-owned Journal cannot cover certain problems of modern capitalism because News Corp. exemplifies those very problems.http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/why_news_corp_cant_cover_the_u.php

And finally,

Bruce Page, author of The Murdoch Archipelago, a UK-published history of News Corp., takes us through the company's history in an 8000-word Web exclusive. We see the company kowtowing to state power on four continents. http://www.cjr.org/profile/bending_to_power.php