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Ugh. Is this really the WSJ? I thought they used to only print stuff like this in the anonymous opinion columns.
by jderick 18y ago
Ugh. Is this really the WSJ? I thought they used to only print stuff like this in the anonymous opinion columns.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoIt says at the top "Wall Street Journal. Opinion Journal" It has no byline. At the bottom it says "Please add your comments to the Opinion Journal forum." Not sure how much more they could do to tell folks that this is an editorial. Seems like this misconception happens a lot, though. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=381821 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=381821
- gojomo 18y agoIt does have a byline and a dot-picture of the author, to the right of the title: "By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR." So by the conventions of newspaper editorial pages, it is the opinion of the author, not the opinion of "the paper". (It is still generally the sort of opinion the WSJ has always favored.)
- davidw 18y agoHe works for "The Paper", though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_W._Jenkins_Jr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_W._Jenkins_Jr
- maximilian 18y agoThey wouldn't print it if they didn't like it. Plus as said by another, he is on the editorial board.
- vaksel 18y agoWSJ saw a huge drop in quality since Murdoch bought the paper. My guess is that he is trying to change WSJ to appeal to a lower common denominator to increase subscriptions.
- Prrometheus 18y agoI got the print edition for 6 months or so after he bought it, the primary news gathering was still awesome. The op-ed page has sucked since Bush got in office.