Lexington on Murdoch

In The Economist this week,the Lexington column concludes that the new owner of the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, may not be much different from the Grahams, who own the Washington Post, and the Sulzbergers, who own the New York Times.

Lexington quotes a former Dow Jones vice-president, Jim Ottaway, as saying that "American journalistic tradition depends on a 'strict separation between political opinions expressed vigorously on editorial pages and news reported with as much factual objectivity as possible.'" Mr. Ottaway obviously has never read the LAT.