Absolutely spot on. The news in the Wall Street Journal has been indistinguishable from the NYTimes, from Gerald Seib on down. It is why I canceled my subscription and have refused to renew it. I occasionally check the front page and it is still replete with opinion surrounded by news bites, with the headlines clearly the worst.
Baker was right to call out this increasingly blatant effort to sway public opinion views subterfuge in the news. Unless and until this changes at the WSJ I will never go back to my decades-long subscription.
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.