It's Good To Be The King.

Positioning this as news seems like a stretch:














Just over a year ago, Rupert Murdoch sent a letter to the Bancroft family, the erstwhile owners of the Journal:

"Your record of journalistic independence and integrity is second to none," Murdoch said. "Any interference--or even hint of interference--would break the trust that exists between the paper and its readers, something I am unwilling to countenance. Apart from breaching the public's trust, it would simply be bad business."

We'll see, no?

...Kill me now.

It was vintage Rupert Murdoch who appeared after dinner at D, holding back little in a wide-ranging discussion that touched on everything from his admiration for Barack Obama, Microsoft’s aborted bid for Yahoo, and even U.S. energy policy toward domestic oil drilling (”We didn’t buy Alaska to save a couple of elk.”)

I sincerely hope that was written under duress.