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Wait, Wall Street is actually in NYC,isn't it? I do not understand why papers do this kind of thing. Last year, the Denver Post had a headline "Lawless Hellhol
by bediger4000 4y ago
Wait, Wall Street is actually in NYC,isn't it?
I do not understand why papers do this kind of thing. Last year, the Denver Post had a headline "Lawless Hellhole" about the downtown Union Station transportation hub. It was a bogus headline, I walked through Union Station a few days after, people were sipping coffee on sidewalk tables, grandmothers were walking dogs. I think newspapers have spent 50 years trying to escape the screeches of "liberal media", and they've become conservative, so they end up hating the metro areas that have harbored and nutured them.
- jfengel 4y agoThe Wall Street Journal has never been "liberal media", but since 2007 it has been owned by Rupert Murdoch. Its news coverage has always had that conservative tendency associated with the financial industry, but was (and mostly remains) a fairly reliable news source. Its opinion pages have become increasingly psychotic, like the rest of Murdoch's empire, pushing delusional right-wing fantasies. Many other "mainstream news sources" have indeed contorted themselves into surreal positions to avoid accusations of "liberal bias". It's possible that's what happened to the Denver Post. But this is just partisan propaganda, being bolstered by having its name attached to a newspaper with a good but rapidly tarnishing reputation.