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Aug 01 2007 12:00am EDT

Nicholas Negroponte, WSJ Guardian

The (other, London, Murdoch) Times tells us who's going to sit on the all-important committee charged with safeguarding the editorial integrity of the WSJ. The first four are worthy enough; the fifth member, however, is more surprising: Nicholas Negroponte, of MIT Media Lab and One Laptop Per Child fame. I like the fact that he's on the committee, if only because his presence there shows a bit of imagination on the part of Dow Jones. No one knows, of course, what the practical role of the committee is going to be, although it can hardly help but exceed the expectations of most observers, given that almost everybody expects Murdoch to ignore the committee entirely. Maybe with the likes of Negroponte on board, Murdoch might actually want to listen to its opinions.

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