The media magnate the establishment loves to hate

Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch Speaks - TIME:

"Murdoch has invested billions in newspapers when few others were willing, but he has also kept them alive through a lowest-common denominator approach typified by the trashy Sun, with its topless Page 3 girls on the breakfast tables of a million Britons. Murdoch wouldn't be Murdoch if he didn't love sticking it to sanctimonious J-school toffs. 'When the Journal gets its Page 3 girls,' he jokes late one night, 'we'll make sure they have M.B.A.s.'"

An excellent assessment of Rupert Murdoch emphasizing not only his recent battle for control of the Wall Street Journal but how it fits into his long-term internet-based interests. Read it.