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In Praise of Print

By Matthew Felling

June 29, 2007 / 12:47 PM EDT / CBS News

(AP)

"The journalists who put out America's great newspapers are not driven primarily by commercial self-interest. If they were, they'd be working at hedge funds. The best newsrooms in America, including the Journal's, are run by people who believe in journalism itself, and its ability to illuminate, make sense of, and improve the world. It's a quaint notion, wildly out of step with the culture and, to more practical minds, bordering on the ridiculous. But it's this core belief, and the way it's reflected in the work every day, that make those newspapers desirable in the first place to people like Murdoch."

-- National Journal columnist (and all-around good guy) William Powers on Rupert Murdoch's potential purchase of Dow Jones and Company, including the Wall Street Journal.