Posted on 08/03/2020 6:47:44 AM PDT by street_lawyer
No, WSJ is not conservative.
Its god is money not liberty.
(but at least its honest enough to not try to hide it, ha!)
The short answer is NO, the WSJ generally speaking is not Conservative.
Long answer is, it depends on what part of the paper you are reading.
When the Murdoch’s bought Dow Jones (parent of WSJ & Barrons) the previous owners got a deal in addition to money. They got a legally binding agreement that they, the previous owners, retained editorial control of the Opinion section of the paper. That - the Opinion section - is where you will still find some Conservatism and the most Conservatism there is in the WSJ.
Long history: The staff of the WSJ have never been Conservative during or since the previous owners. Even the staff of the Opinion section is not Conservative and not in sync with their editors. 280 of the Opinion section staff wrote a letter to the editors of the Opinion section airing their complaints about the direction those editors take the Opinion section pages. Those editors have some cajones and in very polite journalistic language told the 280 individuals they could say what they want but the editors are not changing their postions at all.
Because the Murdochs did not get editorial control of the Opinion section, they added some columns to the general news pages - particularly those by Gerald Seib - that are really editorials in the style of Pravda On the Hudson - editorials written as if they are “news reports”.
Under the Murdochs the general news pages have also become direct advocates (which is different than merely reporting) of (a) electric vehicles, (b) green energy, (c) “diversity” and (d) social “equity”. They PUSH articles carrying those themes far beyond a mere daily reporting of new newsworthy events.
The news side is as progressive as most reporters are. The editorial page is supposed to be conservative but its populated by center right never Trump globalists
Thanks for filling in the details of the story.
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