Peter – I am more than open to the idea that the Murdoch bid is qualified good news. But, in my experience “unqualified good news” is very rare indeed. With the exception of the self-immolation of Dan Rather, I can’t think of any unqualified good news in the last 10 years (saving of course personal stuff like the birth of my daughter, etc).

We’ll have to see what Murdoch does with the Journal for starters. It’s nice to hear his plans are promising. But one would hate to see a Page Three girl in the Journal. Though it might be done tastefully with one of those line drawings they do.