How Bad Is News Corp.?
“…There are rat traps throughout News International’s headquarters in Wapping, the old distillery and warehouses where Rupert Murdoch moved his British papers in the late 1980s as a way to break the print unions. There are rat traps even in Murdoch’s own office. And the rats there are very large.
Beyond the obvious metaphor that the freely running rats suggest, there’s another. News Corp. has never had anything more than a thin skin of an orderly, well-resourced, highly regulated corporation. Underneath the first layer is a kind of unreconstructed, even Dickensian, do-anything-to-survive world…”
— Michael Wolff, AdWeek
