The media is focused and perpetuates the personal rivalry of Mr. Sulzberger and Mr. Murdoch mainly for the pleasure of the media industry folks. The general public is uninterested in all this in fact; sadly, they are barely interested in reading a newspaper any more. The real story is that both the NYT and Newscorp’s respected properties are scrambling to where today’s readers are: the internet and portable devices. Print is not dead; it’s just not capturing or maintaining the same number of readers it did years ago for reasons other than content. Surely journalism is on the decline everywhere and that Publishers have long seen the advantages in being on one side of the aisle or the other politically, but it is a business foremost and not a bleeding heart enterprise, as both individuals lead public shareholder Corporations to earn profits.

The dangerous aspects of reporting washwomen talk of these titan’s personal rivalries in so-called respected National magazines such as Newsweek is that these publications showcase their journalistic decline and desperation to fix their own free fall in reader circulation. That is the real story my friends.