WSJ union head: Don’t sell to Murdoch.

In Salon yesterday, Steven Yount, president of the union representing 2,000 Dow Jones employees, argued against selling the parent company of the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch:

I believe our members’ interests are best served by adherence to the principle of editorial independence within a company whose only mission is reporting the news. As journalists and union members we see no upside in reducing Dow Jones to a tiny appendage of a global conglomerate with financial, political and regulatory interests alien to what we do.