If you want more context about the quote on this page by William Powers, columnist with America's National Journal, it comes from a short article about Rupert Murdoch's potential purchase of Dow Jones and its flagship, the Wall Street Journal.
It continues: "The best newsrooms in America, including the Journal's, are run by people who believe in journalism itself, and its ability to illuminate, make sense of, and improve the world. It's a quaint notion, wildly out of step with the culture and, to more practical minds, bordering on the ridiculous. But it's this core belief, and the way it's reflected in the work every day, that make those newspapers desirable in the first place to people like Murdoch." (Via National Journal)
