The power and the glory: What's really at stake in Rupert Murdoch's bid for Dow Jones

摘要

Soon after I arrived at The Wall Street Journal in the early 1980s, Norman Pearlstine asked me to his office. He was the managing editor, the highest-ranking editor, and I was the lowliest of reporters, covering the newly created legal beat. He asked me to report on a highly sensitive, not-yet-public insider-trading case. What made it so extraordinary, the reason he was leaping over several ranks of editors to give me the assignment himself, was the source of the inside information: The Wall Street Journal itself.