Posted on 01/05/2008 5:54:41 PM PST by pa_dweller
It'll be interesting to watch. Can the gray lady come around? I hope so, the constant liberal drumbeat has built up a callous on me.
Leave the Wall St Journal alone....I just hope the excellant writing that paper has and its conservative perspective does not change with Ruppie.
You know, as crazy as this story sounds - it does have some popular support - I read several technology boards and more and more the New York Times is labeled as “neocon” by tech folk.
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The NY Times and WaPost decided back in 1999 that the Age of the Newspaper was over, that they were dead, but that they could go out with a bang by pushing their personal ideologies in their final swan song of manipulating public opinion and elections.
Which is to say, they aren’t going to change. They aren’t going to move to the Center.
They are going to fight for every inch of ground, long after even the Bunker itself is captured, and the fall of their “Berlin” is sealed.
NYT moves to the center ? From Stalinist to Maoist ?
Actually, the Wall Street Journal is divided right down the middle. The editorial page is largely conservative, and has done some excellent work—although they are NOT conservative on the social issues, marriage and abortion.
But the WSJ news reporters are just as leftist as the rest of the MSM. Evidently they followed that pattern deliberately—liberal reporters, conservative editorialists.
Whether Murdoch will improve the situation, however, remains to be seen. Probably he will spice it up, if nothing else.
I don’t know where you have been, or what you have been reading, but the WSJ editorial section moved so far to the left that I cancelled my subscription long ago.
As did many, many others.
Perhaps compared to the rest of the MSM...also, it does offer better writing and on a variety of topics and has guest writers like Petreus, conservatives, Henninger, Noonan, etc.
Ping me when the Slimes hires Ann Coulter.
Its interesting that an allegedly unbiased news source is seen as having a “base” like a politician. Journalism is a flawed concept.
I did not know of that. Duranty had the chance to alter history and save millions. He blew a big chance to do good.
Don't forget illegal immigration, the WSJ is for open borders. Paul Gigot called those opposed to amnesty "not rational" others on his team were equally offended by those of us who think our borders should be secure, especially in a time of war.
True. They are big business conservatives. So I think they are also wrong on things like trade with China.
The NYT didn’t change, the “center” is now in hard left territory.
Ha
Funny... I hadn't noticed...
I just posted a dup of this article. I did a search for NYT and it came up empty. It still comes up empty. Can anyone tell me if they get the same?
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