I've known Kara Swisher for many years, back when I was at the Financial Times and she was "Boomtown" columnist at the Wall Street Journal. She's a tenacious and persistent journalist and those are also key characteristics of her success at building AllThingsD into a solid news platform.
She's also done a great job in hiring reporters with similar qualities of tenacity and persistence and it has given AllThingsD a good reputation for accuracy and quality.
So it's strange to read Michael Wolff in USA Today describing Kara Swisher as a "feared player" and that Rupert Murdoch once called her "crazy scary."Wolff: Tech journalist Kara Swisher is a feared player