My Exclusive Interview With Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch’s been in the news a lot lately, what with his insane plan to remove his sites — including my beloved Wall Street Journal — from Google’s indexes. As a result of his posturing and the threat of Steve Ballmer paying Murdoch and others with huge pockets to have their content indexed exclusively on Bing, Google’s modified how they handle news results in the most idiotically minor way imaginable.

Anyway, before Google made their move to placate an old man whose answer to the question “How do you spell adventure?” is “apple sauce,” I got a chance to sit down with Rupert to talk about this whole fiasco. Now, there was video for this, but after we were done the interview, Rupert realized people would’ve been able to link to it, and then he told me he’d shut down the Wall Street Journal and unplug the internet if I posted it.

So here’s the transcript of our landmark conversation: