Paul Carr has an article on this that, I think, nails what is going on with Murdoch:<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/28/rupert-murdoch-google-nsfw/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/28/rupert-murdoch-google-n...</a>
It's not that I don't love newspapers or sympathize with their current plight, it's just that Murdoch seems so fully disconnected from reality that he's becoming dangerous. With all of his power and money he is perhaps dangerous even to those beyond the reach of his media empire.