News Corp.'s Other Murdoch: How Dare the British Library Charge for Its Digital Newspaper Archive!

Please feel free to file this in the C.E.Oh-no-he-di'nt folder: News Corp.'s James Murdoch has publicly slapped plans by the British Library, one of the most venerable libraries in the world, for digitizing its newspaper archive.

For those of you over on the other side of the pond, or otherwise not in the know, the British Library is the U.K.'s official national library. It's been around in various forms for around a century, and since 1911 it has been the legal national deposit...