[CedarDave]

The new News Corp., a smaller entity, will be focused on newspapers and publishing. Both will be publicly traded, under separate ticker symbols. …

I imagine George Soros or someone of a similar ilk would like to take control and turn it into another left-wing lamestream media outlet. Hopefully the "poison pill" strategy will prevent that.

[GeronL]

newspapers are dying, its a great idea to let them go without bankrupting the other operations