Posted on 07/24/2020 12:29:48 AM PDT by knighthawk
The Wall Street Journal's opinion section had a scathing response Thursday to the 280 staffers who had signed a letter this week claiming it pushed 'misinformation'.
In a note published by the section's editorial board late Thursday night, the fiery rebuttal vowed that the opinion section wouldn't 'wilt under cancel-culture pressure' following the protest letter sent to publisher Almar Latour.
The board said that it would not be responding directly to staffers who signed the letter but hoped to reassure readers that it will continue to fight back against 'a culture of growing progressive conformity and intolerance'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Journalism school graduates are almost ALL Leftists who have been indoctrinated by their Marxist professors. This uprising by Wall Street Journal insiders is no surprise.
I heard of a NYT reporter who was so disgusted with their leftism he took a lowering paying job at WSJ. He claimed the only 2 decent major news sources left are the WSJ and something in Germany. These 280 ought to be canned immediately or watched carefully and canned at the first sign of fake news.
To be honest about the WSJ (I’ve read off and on for 20 years)...about 90-percent of the daily edition is business-orientated. From the remaining ten-percent....half is US-orientated and the rest being Europe/Asia/Africa.
If you just wanted plain blunt information on some event unfolding in Egypt, and the ten facts that matter....then the WSJ does the job. If you wanted a very detailed ‘long-story’, then it’s marginally going to deliver that. I’d also suggest that if you just had 15 minutes to gaze over world news...it’s the best platform existing at this point.
Forty years ago, there were better papers or magazines existing, but they’ve all turned into crap, or propaganda pieces. So by process of elimination...the WSJ is left standing.
I’ve been a reader for nearly 50 years. Not near the newspaper it once was, and has really declined in the past 5 to 10 years. Articles written with an anti-business slant, obviously by youngsters who have NO real-world experience. The only reason I stay is they keep cutting the subscription price every time I threaten to cancel.
I agree with both of you. My cleverer sons enjoy searching the WSJ for typos and grammatical errors, while I point out how writers can promote their opinions while ostensibly reporting news.
Then we all do the crossword puzzle. Group effort is okay, but using Google is cheating.
He didn’t leave because the place was a leftist dump (which it was). He left because he realized early on that you can’t earn a decent living in journalism ... which probably explains why the industry is filled with mediocrities and morons.
Since I’ve been doing my own local news blog for the past 11 years, I’ve had quite a bit of interaction with ‘real’ journalists with college degrees. Only a handful would I classify as reporters - someone with intelligence, curiosity, natural skepticism, and common sense. I try to stay in touch with those folks.
You see a lot of journalist types sucking up to the bureaucrats, hoping to land a deadhead job with good bennies.
Nah. The WSJ will cave like a rented Washington Football Team.
Keep the conservative opinion writers.
Find 280 new “journalists”.
But, of course, the wsj will keep those 280 people employed.
JoMa
apparently, there is a letter from the company which ends with something about “in light of the Black Lives Matter movement”:
24 Jul: news.com.au: Coon cheese to dump ‘racist’ name after complaint from Aboriginal activist
The owners of Coon cheese have decided to dump the brand name after receiving a complaint which called the current name “racist”.
by Phoebe Loomes
The Canadian owners of Coon cheese have responded to calls for the name to be dumped, saying after careful consideration, they’ll be renaming the popular Aussie cheese...
Saputo Dairy Australia responded to the calls, with the company’s CEO Lino Saputo Jr saying in a statement the brand is developing a new name “aligning with current attitudes and perspectives”...
“We wanted to ensure we listened to all the concerns surrounding the COON brand name, while also considering comments from consumers who cherish the brand and recognise the origin of its founder Edward William Coon, which they feel connected to.
“After thorough consideration, Saputo has decided to retire the COON brand name. As part of this process of transformation, we commit to keep our stakeholders informed as we move forward.”...
The brand, which was originally an Australian owned company, was named after American Edward William Coon.
A statement previously published on the company’s website said the brand was named after “the work of an American, Edward William Coon, who patented a unique ripening process that was used to manufacture the original Coon cheese”...
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/coon-cheese-to-dump-racist-name-after-complaint-from-aboriginal-activist/news-story/a4e3ad0907111138bb3a39e7a705458f
this has been removed:
BLM Protestor Admits To Being A ‘Huge Fan’ Of Coon Cheese
Double Bay Today Australia - 24 Jul 2020
2 hours ago - A proud member of the Black Lives Matter movement has admitted he’s a regular consumer of Coon cheese. “Despite its controversial name, ...
24 Jul: Daily Mail: Coon cheese is dead: Foreign owners kill off controversial brand name after Aboriginal activist spent 20 years lobbying to have it changed
By Kelsey Wilkie
The move comes after the Black Lives Matter movement gathered momentum in the wake of the death of George Floyd...
Dr Hagan said the word ‘coon’ is demeaning to people of colour, particularly First Nations people in Australia because it was used by oppressors to belittle them as a race.
He also asked the company to investigate the origins of the company’s name, amid doubts over the existence of Edward Coon...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8555439/Coon-cheese-dead-Foreign-owners-kill-controversial-brand-Australia.html
Wikipedia: Stephen Hagan (born 1959) is an Australian author and anti-racism campaigner. He is also a newspaper editor, documentary maker, university lecturer and former diplomat.
yet he has never checked out information available online!
Enacademic: Coon cheese
The Coon cheese-makers
The cheese is said to be named after its American creator Edward W. Coon (1871–1934) of Philadelphia, who patented a method, subsequently known as the Cooning process, for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity...
Former manufacturer Kraft, and later Dairy Farmers and National Foods, have vigorously defended the trademark.
E. W. Coon was the grandson of Amherst Coon (1795–1877), a farmer born in Russia, New York, who married Sally Betsey Treat in 1822. His sons Mattison (b. 1823) and Ephraim Coon (b. 1832) were described in 1893 as having been in the butter and cheese business together at 29, South Water Street, Philadelphia, for more than thirty years. Ephraim’s son Edward Willie Coon was born on July 30, 1871, and had taken out at least one cheese patent by 1912...
In August 1923, The Journal and Republican of Lowville, New York, reported the sale by “E. W. Coon of Philadelphia, maker and shipper of cheese”, of five milk plants in villages around Watertown to the Dairymen’s League Co-operative Association, Inc...
After selling his processing plants, Edward W. Coon became a cheese dealer in Philadelphia. He died in 1934, aged sixty-two...
Disagreement
The accuracy of Dairy Farmers’ account of the origin of the brand has been challenged. Anti-racism campaigner Stephen Hagan has said that he has been unable to find evidence that Edward Coon was a famous cheese maker, contending that the name came instead from the black wraparound in which it was originally sold...
https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1100035
the following can be found in Google books...url too long to post:
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents By United States. Patent Office
Coon, Edward W., Philadelphia, Pa. Cheese No. 87,857; Aug 13: Gaz. vol 181: p. 535.
Sorry but the WSJ has already “wilted” given their restrictions on what stories they allow comments.
They were already supporting massive immigration in 1995.
By 2005, they were essentially supporting Open Borders and Perpetual Amnesty.
Most people are surprised to learn that the “News Division” of the WSJ has been center-left (or worse) since the 1970s.
That is the fake battle going on right now - the All Left news division is fighting a fake war against the fake Conservatives on the editorial page.
In 1990, the WSJ editorial page, and the John O’Sullivan led National Review, were true Titans of Conservative journalism.
There has been nothing like them - before or since.
Fire. Their. Asses.
Do a Red Bull on ‘em!
Then we wonder why we're losing... clueless.
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