I don’t know if you’ve heard but Rupert Murdoch wants to buy the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones & Co. Considering how influential the Wall Street Journal is, it would probably have some noticeable effect on the public discourse. So, I found this interesting:
Billionaire supermarket investor Ron Burkle, conservative publisher Rupert Murdoch’s potential competitor to purchase The Wall Street Journal and its parent Dow Jones and Co., is a close friend of Bill Clinton and a generous contributor to Democrats.
In the first quarter this year, Burkle gave $50,000 to Democratic congressional campaign committees — $25,000 to the House and $25,000 to the Senate. Burkle has contributed $1.5 million to politics during his lifetime, with 98 percent going to Democrats.
The main union of Dow Jones employees enlisted Burkle to block Murdoch’s bid for their company.
The union doesn’t want Murdoch to buy their company. Why doesn’t that surprise me?
