The Last Great Newspaper War?

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March 03, 2010

Tom Ashbrook

Rupert Murdoch addresses the Wall Street Journal newsroom on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007, the day his $5 billion-plus bid for Dow Jones & Co., which owned the Journal, cleared its final hurdle. (AP)

Guests:

Gabriel Sherman, contributing editor at New York Magazine and a special correspondent for The New Republic. His cover story on Rupert Murdoch, "The Raging Septuagenarian," appears in the current issue of New York.
Alan Mutter, former columnist and editor at the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and former CEO of three Silicon Valley companies involved in broadband delivery and online media technology. He writes commentary on technology and media on his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur.

More:
Listen back to our show on Murdoch vs. Google, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill.

This program aired on March 3, 2010.