If this story is true, it tells me that the WSJ is starting to see problems with its bottom line. I’m probably not the only one who has stopped reading it because of the consistent anti-Trump globalism that fills its pages.
That email would be appropriate if sent to MOST news outlets - maybe he could forward it to the NY TImes. Sheesh, and the TImes thinks this is news???
In the famous Harvard Annenberg Study of news coverage of the President, the WSJ’s coverage of the first 100 days was 70% negative. Not as horrendous as CNN and NBC at 93% and the NYT at 87%, but certainly not as balanced as FOX at 52% negative. There were no news outlets that gave him a positive majority in their coverage. Contrast to the slobbering adoration Obama received.
Then they trumpet the fact that the President’s poll numbers are down. What a surprise.
Keep an eye on this. If Gerard Baker is suddenly given his walking papers, or if he’s re-assigned from being an Editor, we’ll know for sure that this was a gimmick to help WSJ’s bottom line.
I used to LOVE reading the WSJ back in the day, but now it’s just another fish wrap like the rest of them.
President Trump can’t even view the total eclipse without criticism
Murdoch destroyed the WSJ when he bought it, turning it into his personal propaganda organ, exactly like Bezos did with WaPo.
They’ve paywalled themselves into irrelevance on the net, and now are probably surviving only because of corporate subscriptions.
Another WSJ and NYT drop-out here. Years ago, and for the same political slant reasons. I kept The Sunday Times just for the crossword, but finally dropped that, too.
Do these papers have a clue? Maybe the WSJ editor is beginning to get it, but why so long?
Now I just get the Newark Star Ledger -— but ONLY for their crosswords.(and a reason for that) One look at their op-ed page and the political cartoon is enough to drop this paper, too.
The HuffPo demonstrates the problem when it immediately suggests that the criticism was motivated by Trump’s personal friendship with Rupert Murdoch, rather than the fact that it’s painfully, obviously true.