links for 2007-05-27 Paul McLeary defends Joe Klein: "Contrary to the overblown claims of journalistic malpractice that Greenwald is leveling, what Klein is actually guilty of doing is taking a story that has been reported elsewhere, and sexing it up with some anonymous sourc Pat Lang on Doug Feith: He says, ‘Is it really true that you really know the Arabs this well, and that you speak Arabic this well? Is that really true? Is that really true?’ “And I said, ‘Yeah, that’s really true.’ “That’s too bad,” Feit FT: Bancrofts to discuss News Corp $5bn bid: The Bancrofts, who number about three dozen, control 64 per cent of Dow Jones’ class-B voting shares. About 80 per cent of their shares lined up against Mr Murdoch’s offer after it was made last month. Howe
