The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. July 14, 2011 Former Wall Street Journal Owners Regret Murdoch Sale ------------------------------------------------------ Rupert Murdoch owns a number of media outlets in the United States, including the Wall Street Journal, which he purchased in 2007. On Wednesday, a number of members of the Bancroft family, which used to control the newspaper, said they would not have allowed the sale had they known of the phone hacking.