The Daily, which was neither tabloidy nor serious, but instead a rather midmarket product like USA Today, was not very successful.But it did help create an odd-couple bonding between Jobs and Murdoch.When Murdoch asked him to speak at his June 2010 News Corp. annual management retreat,Jobs made an exception to his rule of never doing such appearances.James Murdoch led him in an after-dinner interview that lasted almost two hours."He was very blunt and critical of what newspapers were doing in technology," Murdoch recalled."He told us we were going to find it hard to get things right,because you're in New York, and anyone who's any good at tech works in Silicon Valley."This did not go down very well with the president of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Gordon McLeod, who pushed back a bit.At the end, McLeod came up to Jobs and said, "Thanks, it was a wonderful evening, but you probably just cost me my job."Murdoch chuckled a bit when he described the scene to me. "It ended up being true," he said.McLeod was out within three months.In return for speaking at the retreat, Jobs got Murdoch to hear him out on Fox News,which he believed was destructive, harmful to the nation, and a blot on Murdoch's reputation.
《日报》并非小报，也不是严肃报纸，而是类似《今日美国》这样的中端产品，然而这份电子报并不是很成功。但它却让乔布斯和默多克建立了亲密的关系。默多克准备在2010年6月举行新闻集团年度管理层集思会，并请乔布斯前来发言；乔布斯的原则是从不出席这样的活动，但这次却破例接受了默多克的邀请。晚宴后，詹姆斯・默多克主持了一个近两小时的采访。“对于报纸在技术上的表现，他非常不客气地进行了批评，”默多克回忆道。“他对我们说，我们很难走上正轨，因为我们在纽约，而擅长技术的人都在硅谷。”时任《华尔街日报》数字网络部门总裁的戈登・麦克劳德并不能完全接受乔布斯的说法，他略微进行了反驳。最后，麦克劳德来到乔布斯跟前说：“谢谢，这是一个美好的夜晚，但是你可能会砸了我的饭碗。”默多克向我描述当时的场景时轻声笑了笑。“最后确实是这样。”他说。采访过后不到3个月，麦克劳德就离职了。作为在新闻集团集思会上讲话的回报，默多克得洗耳恭听乔布斯对福克斯新闻网的看法，乔布斯认为福克斯新闻具有破坏性，对整个国家都有危害，并且会是默多克的一个名誉污点。
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