You know the scorpion that killed the frog in that old fable? According to Columbia Journalism Review, that’s Rupert Murdoch.
CJR, a magazine for “professional journalists published bimonthly by the [1]Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,” [2] fired the latest shot in the mainstream media’s fight to stop the sale of The Wall Street Journal to News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch.
“[Bancroft] family members sensibly fear that he [Murdoch] would misuse the paper’s journalistic power,” said an editorial in the July/August 2007 issue of CJR. “Murdoch’s answer is that to damage the credibility of the Journal would be to destroy it. Why would he do such a thing?”
CJR said that Murdoch would play the scorpion to the Wall Street Journal and destroy its journalistic credibility because “it’s his nature.”
[3]Journalists in large part have come out against [4]the Murdoch acquisition of Dow Jones & Company because of The Wall Street Journal. CJR’s editorial makes it clear journalists’ opinions on the matter are far from fair and balanced.