Walt and I had tried to make it work. We spent vast amounts of time meeting with various weasels—and Rupert weasels were a particularly noxious breed—bringing them ideas of how to expand. Our conference was always a reliable moneymaker, but it was too small and we needed reasonable investments to move into new and potentially more lucrative areas. While we offered a good plan, all the Dow Jones executives could seem to do was point out how well we were paid. “But that new revenue would never have existed without our ideas and ambition,” I told one who seemed particularly riveted to the big
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