Will there be a Wall Street kerfuffle over BBC eulogy?

Now that Rupert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal, what will he think about the paper running vast, uncritical features about the BBC? Of course Murdoch doesn't meddle with editorial policy, as we all know, so presumably he'll he relaxed about the page-long interview with Beeb director general Mark Thompson that is given front-page billing in today's Wall Street Journal Europe. Murdoch would probably enjoy the intro: "Civil servant Mark Thompson wants to turn the BBC into an empire on which the sun never sets." Civil servant? Jeez, the guy's a custodian of a global institution, a world leader, not some kind of pen-pushing functionary sucking on the teat of public subsidy. Is he? And as Thommo himself reveals, he's pretty comfortable with his status. "Self-doubt, that's not a big issue for me," he tells the Journal.