davelms - 4:53 pm on Nov 14, 2009 (gmt 0)

if he blocked Google he would be removed from conventional organic serps.

Are you suggesting that Google are not being truthful when they write on their Google News help pages:

"This [removing your site from Google News] won't remove your site from our Web Search results."

Edit - My opinion is that Murdoch could remove his sites from Google News straight away - if he really wanted to - by following the documented procedures that have been put in place for this very purposes. And without impacting on any placement in the organic serps.