Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff penned a love story to Murdoch at Vanity Fair, pointing out that Murdoch is a warrior, among other things:
War is Rupert Murdoch’s natural state. When he launched the Fox Broadcasting Company, in October 1986, he went to war against the hegemony of CBS, ABC, and NBC. With Fox News he crossed swords with CNN’s Ted Turner. At Sky, his satellite-TV system in the U.K., he went up against the BBC. He’s battled China, the F.C.C., the print unions in Great Britain, and, recently, most of the journalism community in his takeover of The Wall Street Journal. He relishes conflict and doesn’t back down—one reason why he’s won so many of his fights and so profoundly changed the nature of his industry.
Now he’s going to war with the Internet.
In other news around the globe:
The Taliban is claiming responsibility for attacks on a pair of remote outposts in Afghanistan yesterday that killed eight U.S. soldiers.
But let us not forget that Rupert Murdoch is a brave warrior at war. He's trying to charge for Internet content, after all.
--WKW