New York Times
The Times asks: "By paying the bankers and lawyers for the family, did the News Corporation essentially buy off the [Bancroft family] advisers and, more important, did the family receive unconflicted guidance or was it pushed to do the deal by high-priced Wall Street advisers who stood to make far more if a deal was consummated?" Also, did the advisers' past and current relationships with
Rupert Murdoch's company sway their advice?
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Unfair and unbalanced advice was behind Murdoch's winning bid (MW)
