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| The Wall Street Journal Is Leftist |
| 2005-06-17 |
| Jim Miller explains: At least on the news side. Who says so? Well, I've said so for years. And Howard Kurtz, who writes on the media for the Washington Post, agrees with me. During my six years as a reporter in the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau, my opinions were nearly always in opposition to the line laid down by the Journal's conservative editorial page, and the same held for most of the other reporters I knew, too. What to make of the fact that our most important business newspaper has mostly leftist reporters? It adds, as I have said, an interesting tension to that newspaper. But it also shows how hard it is for a newspaper, any newspaper, to recruit reporters who will cover politics in a balanced way. |
| Posted by:Zhang Fei |
| #1 Nearly all journalists are liberal to leftist. The more conservative papers simply keep them on a short leash with strict oversight. If left to themselves, you couldn't tell the difference between the OC Register and the LA Times. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-06-17 21:27 |