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That's what
Dean Starkman says. With
Marcus Brauchli gone, the Wall Street Journal "loses not just a topflight editor and bureau chief, a great Asia hand, and someone who was real, live reporter, one who displayed sophistication, prescience and conscience. It also loses a surprisingly savvy internal diplomat who, I thought, might just have been adroit enough to manage the inevitable tensions that would arise from the takeover, at least enough to preserve some of the Journal's great journalistic heritage." ||
Devin Leonard: "Is this a big deal? Indeed it is." ||
Nick Denton: Why Murdoch's in such a hurry.
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WSJ union saw Brauchli as a buffer who would protect editorial (E&P)
