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I am a 30+ year subscriber to WSJ.

The editorial page has been consistently middle of the road and fact based. They do show a liberal bias on LBGT issues and immigration; otherwise their is little on their editorial pages that Conservatives can object too.

There news coverage is a different matter. In the last year or so the news coverage has slipped from being more or less objective and middle of the road; to having a strong left wing bias. It has gotten steadily worse in the last several months to the point where it is not yet as bad as NYT,CNN or WP but it is certainly as bad as the networks.

I believe it has always been difficult basing a balanced news reporting in such a over the top biased population like New York City but with the influence of the Murdoch children I think the WSJ days are numbered.

The bias which infects their news reporting will eventually infect their editorial pages and at that point there will not be a sliver of difference between them and NYT and WP.


14 posted on 08/24/2017 8:23:28 AM PDT by Jonah Johansen ("Coming soon to a neighborhood near you")
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To: Jonah Johansen

Well while the Editorial Page might be okay, I do find some objections to it, the news coverage and the columnists I do object to. Their Bias against Trump is more than I want to deal with. I have thought several times in the last year or so of canceling, but I do want the financial news.


17 posted on 08/24/2017 8:26:12 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Jonah Johansen

Good reply. I agree. I do not always agree with the OpEds but they are usually well reasoned and based in conservative to libertarian principles. The news section was always sorta bland in that is was very fact based. But that changed as far back as 15 years ago.

I think the WSJ deliberately tried to broaden the audience with opinionated fact pieces while keeping the core happy with the OpEds. Now they have seen what happens anytime you let libs get their nose into the tent.


26 posted on 08/24/2017 9:40:02 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Jonah Johansen

The wsj editorial page is now merely a mouthpiece of the establishment uniparty.

Nothing else.


32 posted on 08/24/2017 12:04:03 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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