[Murdoch] explained his spouse, Ms Deng, who's not an officer of the corporate, was at this time in China with senior News Corp executives trying to locate a way for MySpace to enter the Chinese market without working up against political road blocks plus the "significant temperature" that Online teams Google and Yahoo have encountered.

His unrelenting insistence reminded me in essentially the most stark terms of James Baldwin's prophetic quip: "Racial development in the usa is…