When you're done reading the Lindsay Lohan cover story, you can also read about Rupert Murdoch vs. Arthur Sulzberger media war in Vanity Fair. According to a summary of the story, VF reporter Sarah Ellison spoke to Andrew Neil, who was editor of Murdoch’s Sunday Times. Neil says, "Americans have this patrician attitude that they have a God-given right to produce these boring newspapers and not be challenged to do it. The New York Times really thinks it’s the BBC...the PBS of newsprint... So, that’s what gets Murdoch’s juices going. He sees [dramatic pause here] a fat pig there for the taking." There are also bitchy comments from Wall Street Journal and NY Times executives.
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