Poor Bancroft family (that would be poor in the pitiful sense, not in the monetary sense). Seems they couldn't agree on who to nominate to the News Corp. board as part of their sale of Dow Jones (they were too tired to make a good decision, apparently), so they let their contractual right expire and turned over the decision to Rupert. He picked 27-year-old Natalie Bancroft, a would-be opera singer and race car enthusiast (read "rich party girl") who lives in Europe and couldn't be bothered to attend any of the family's sale deliberations in person. Unbelievable.
I feel sorry for the career journalists at the Journal and other Dow Jones properties.
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