Dow Jones Shareholder Ottaway Would Prefer General Electric, Pearson Bid

(Bloomberg) -- James Ottaway Jr., whose family
controls 6.2 percent of the voting rights at Dow Jones & Co.,
said General Electric Co. and Pearson Plc would be better owners
for the publisher of the Wall Street Journal than News Corp.

Ottaway has urged Dow Jones's controlling Bancroft family
not to accept News Corp.'s $5 billion offer. A former Dow Jones
executive, Ottaway, 69, has said that News Corp. Chairman Rupert
Murdoch wouldn't protect the Journal's editorial independence.


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