Posted on 11/19/2004 11:19:17 AM PST by GeneD
WSJ executive Washington editor Al Hunt joins Bloomberg News in January as managing editor for government reporting. "In his 39 years at the Journal, Al has been cited as 'Washington's most trusted reporter,' and "most dynamic bureau chief' before he turned to commentary and TV as a columnist and anchor," writes Bloomberg News editor-in-chief Matt Winkler.
Wonderful!
You owe me a new keyboard!!
Jeanne Cummings is a pretty consistently awful. She is one of their political reporters. I subscribe to their online mostly for editorials and business news. It's too bad they are getting rid of Hunt, though. It was kinda like having a cartoon on the Op/Ed page. I won't get to send him mocking emails anymore. Isn't he married to Judy Woodruff?
Adios, Al. I haven't read the Thursday OPINION column for years.
It's the only thing on the WSJ editorial page that is almost always wrong and always a waste of time.
It really has been a great month, hasn't it?
I make it a point never to read Hunt's column in the WSJ and I'm sure I'm not alone. He's also been one of the reasons the Journal's news reporting is consistently to the left of the editorial comment. Good riddance.
LOL
i was sitting here wondering how to get the word MIKE in
this post!
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Yeah, like Walter Crankcase was "America's Most Trusted Newsman".
Al Hunt was the news director. I don't know when or if he ever gave up that job, but he was at one time responsible for what appeared on p. 1.
Also, he is no longer allowed to use the words, "but," "merger," "deal," and many others.
That may be, but still, the WSJ news was never an extension of their editorial page (unlike the NYT).
It was the opposite. The WSJ news pages ran to the left of center, sometimes with NYT-like aggressiveness.
I never saw it. The news was rarely slanted and was much more objective than any other MSM newspaper.
From this thread:
The best analysis I know along these lines is the ongoing study "A Measure of Media Bias," by professors Tim Groseclose of UCLA and Jeffrey Milyo of the University of Missouri. ...
The researchers used these data to calculate, effectively, an ADA rating for each media outlet. The idea is that outlets that refer favorably to conservative think tanks are reasonably viewed as conservative, whereas those that refer favorably to liberal think tanks are plausibly labeled liberal. ...
One surprise is that the Wall Street Journal's news pages have the most liberal rating of all, 85, about the same as the typical Democrat in Congress. The rating for the Journal's editorial pages would of course look very different. (As one quipster observed, James Carville and Mary Matalin probably agree more often than the news and editorial divisions of the Wall Street Journal.)
Ahem.
You should see today's column (Thursday, Dec. 9) "Red Flags for the GOP's Political Bull Market"
The first 4/5ths of it are all donning the mask and cape of Captain Obvious and warning us hoi polloi that tax reform and reform of Social Security is going to be...(gasp) DIFFICULT! And that (horrors!) 2nd terms are different and in some ways harder than first terms!
But those first 4/5ths aren't even the half of it. Here are the last three paragraphs that make me throw concerns about bias out the window in favor of an intervention for Al over possible substance abuse problems. Pay special attention to the second paragraph:
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"He'll have even less (support) if Iraq continues to deteriorate. The official line that we're making progress and it'll get much better after the Jan. 30 elections has no credibility. This week the New York Times revealed a bleak picture painted by a classified cable from the CIA's Baghdad station chief. Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, after a recent trip to Iraq, said some areas are actually more dangerous than a few months ago. The early line on training Iraqis to take over the security tasks is not encouraging.
"Peter Galbraith, a serious student of the Iraqis and Kurds, just returned from a 12-day stay in Iraq and is horrified at what's occurring: 'The optimistic scenario is that half of the country (controlled by the Shiites) will be turned over to the Iranians; the Kurds will resist that and the Sunni area is a violent mess.'"
"There's talk of stretching out the elections and little reason to believe violence, bloodshed or American casualties will decline. Years of thousands of young Americans dying in a foreign civil war will transform any second-term euphoria."
"If that sounds familiar, it is; think 40 years ago."
Aside from this strange, indecipherable quote from Peter Galbraith that apparently only he and Al understand, Al reminds me of someone talking on the phone at the office who partially overhears other conversations and finds alarming things in them.
Like maybe the guy in the next cube is talking about how Peyton Manning had fire in his eyes in the Kansas City game, and then Al puts down his phone and says "Fire? There's a fire? I heard from a serious student of firefighting that there's a fire!"
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