News Corp Boss Brands Washington Post Journalists 'High Priests'

Guardian ^ | March 31, 2014 | Mark Sweney

[lbryce]

Robert Thomson, the chief executive of News Corp, has branded Washington Post journalists "high priests" who have failed to embrace the transition to digital.

Thomson, appearing with WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell at an Ad Week Europe session in London on Monday, said he believed that the new Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos, will be a shot in the arm for the paper's commercial and distribution strategy.

[lbryce]

Arrogance, pomposity are only some of the aspects that feed the delusions that the MSM harbor about themselves. Nothing is going to change the inevitably in which these pampered princes of print are destined to die a slow, agonizing death.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I look for Barky or someone like him proposing a national news tax, taken up to keep newspapers alive.