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Re: Wall Street Journal Prints Trump Letter Full of Election Lies

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 28 Oct 21 12:40 PM | 41 view(s)
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Unfortunately, it is absolutely normal for rich newspaper owners to hire editors who share their views. The editors then hire people with opinions. Many of them will be people who share the editor's opinion.

And so on.

It's an unfortunate fact that ownership affects opinions.

But the good news is that if there's a readership for different opinions, you'll usually find one newspaper or another occupying it.

As regards truth, the entire Republican edifice is built upon denial of reality in favour of dogma, faith and cult worship of the orange fatty. So it's not that surprising that the WSJ has adopted the same stance.

I don't know how the US is going to solve the problem of dishonesty in the GOP. It's a hard thing to rid a country of corruption, intellectual or otherwise. I certainly don't think the US will remain a top superpower if this is the new normal. Trust is a major element of wealth and authority.


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Re: Wall Street Journal Prints Trump Letter Full of Election Lies
By: clo2 in ALEA
Thu, 28 Oct 21 11:43 AM 		Msg. 43749 of 54959

WSJ prints Trump's lie-filled letter

The WSJ's Opinion section published a lengthy letter to the editor from Donald Trump on Wednesday that was full of debunked claims and conspiratorial falsehoods about the election he lost last year.

The Journal's opinion folks are separate from the newsroom and sometimes downright oppositional. Several reporters grumbled to me about the decision to publish the letter, but none were surprised, given the Opinion section's right-wing and contrarian bent.

"I think it’s very disappointing that our opinion section continues to publish misinformation that our news side works so hard to debunk," one of the reporters said. "They should hold themselves to the same standards we do!"

Another WSJ reporter retweeted the Beast's Matt Fuller: "Newspapers don’t exist so that powerful people can publish whatever lies they want. In fact, that may be one of the very opposite reasons newspapers exist."

So what was the justification for publishing it? WaPo's Jeremy Barr inquired, but "Steve Severinghaus, a spokesman for the Journal, declined to comment about the decision to publish the letter. When asked specifically about the newspaper’s standards for publishing a letter, he did not respond."

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