St. Petersburg Times
"Presumably, he did not buy a trophy property to use as a spittoon," writes
Paul Tash, editor of the Poynter-owned St. Petersburg Times. "[
Rupert] Murdoch has plenty of money, and he says he will put a lot of it into the newspaper." Re the WSJ editorial review committee: "Maybe I'm missing something, but the guy who writes the checks usually gets to call the shots, and Murdoch is no shrinking violet. ...The great-grandchildren of the Bancroft family have overlooked what
Nelson Poynter saw clearly when he provided for the future of his St. Petersburg Times: Contracts are a poor substitute for character."
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