Kosner, Grove: Rupert Murdoch Will Not Ruin The Wall Street Journal

Legendary editor and journalist Ed Kosner and Portfolio’s Lloyd Grove dropped by James Goodale’s public television program ”The Digital Age” this week to talk about Rupert Murdoch and what his ownership of The Journal will mean to the respected paper.

James Goodale: We’ll agree with 14 Pulitzer Prizes that The Wall Street Journal is a paragon of quality journalism — let’s just go back and forth on that because some viewers think of The Wall Street journal as just a financial paper for men, but it’s not, is it?

Ed Kosner: No, The Journal — I think I’ve said it before — is the best paper all things considered …

Ed Kosner: It has the highest IQ; it has the most scrupulous and detached reporting; it goes and finds the stories that hardly anybody else does …

Later in the interview the conversation turned to speculation on the relationship between the Wall Street...

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