Miami Herald
Not his politics, says
Edward Wasserman. "The Journal doesn't need a blue-ribbon panel of grandees, each paid $100,000 a year to attend quarterly meetings," he writes. "It needs a wholly independent newsroom Conflicts Committee consisting of Journal staffers chosen by their peers, who would investigate staff complaints about coverage that they believe was improperly inclined on News Corp.'s behalf -- and who would publish their findings on a public website outside of managerial control."
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Coll: Many journalists expect WSJ to be diminished under Murdoch (NYer)
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"The end of the WSJ's independence is an incalculable loss" (David Warsh)
