Carreyrou wrote a book. This story was going to get out anyway. Murdoch is a very skilled propagandist. He knew that trying to suppress this story would have

Carreyrou wrote a book. This story was going to get out anyway. Murdoch is a very skilled propagandist. He knew that trying to suppress this story would have backfired on him. Especially because the machines don’t work and because Walgreens would have soon learned the truth. Nothing hurts a propagandist more than being really caught in an obvious lie. To protect his ability to slant the WSJ, Murdoch couldn’t have gotten caught suppressing this story. And he would have gotten caught if he tried.