ews Corp recently bid to buy Dow Jones (publishers of the Wall Street Journal), amid much controversy, for it is a popular notion that Rupert Murdoch, the man behind News Corp, has little respect for editorial sanctity � something that the Wall Street Journal has always protected.

Subsequently, some interesting and amusing developments have occurred. Rupert Murdoch is believed to have approached Yahoo! for 25 per cent of the company in return for MySpace, a social networking site, and other, smaller web properties... more