When pitching to VC’s, entrepreneurs hype the heck out of their ideas, years of experience and management teams. But I’ve never heard of anyone touting their luck or connection to God. Full Article at TechCrunch

Early in the hour, Tom asked Michael, who recently wrote a biography of Rupert Murdoch, for his inside take on what’s going through Murdoch’s mind: MICHAEL WOLFF: I think he’s raging against the dying of the light, actually. Full Article at On Point

Amid the rhetoric over how to support the business of journalism, the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism has taken a plunge by creating models of what a news network on the Web might look like with hard, if optimistic, numbers. Full Article at E-media Tidbits

Audio of this show will be available by 3pm ET. Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown. Jeff Jarvis blogs at Buzzmachine.com. Full Article at On Point

On the most recent episode of This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Baratunde Thurston, and John C. Dvorak wondered why Yahoo! would delete all the data from its recently discontinued Goecities service rather than keeping it backed up somewhere. Full Article at Surprisingly Free

As local newspapers fold, the entrepreneurial “hyperlocal” publisher has become a new accidental career path for many journalists. Full Article at Journerdism