I don’t know whether to believe these idiots or if they’re just blindingly dishonest, but the Bancroft clan’s claims they would not have sold the Wall Street Journal if they had known Murdoch’s methods is just laughable. Huge warnings were published all over the place about Murdoch’s tactics and his far right leanings prior to the purchase.
No, I take that back. These Bancroft people are both idiots and blindingly dishonest. And greedy beyond our imaginations. Don’t believe a word of their nonsense.
The Bancroft family’s hand-wringing over the sale of their family legacy to the world’s most cartoonishly evil media mogul was clearly phony at the time. They wanted out of the newspaper business. Murdoch wanted to crush the New York Times, and he prefers buying old newspapers to launching new ones. Murdoch was the only party interested in giving the Bancrofts more than a pittance for a newspaper in 2007. His promises of editorial independence were understood by all to be a means by which the members of the Bancrofts could assuage their conscience, and nothing more.
