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> You don't think the front page of the WSJ would contain a decent summary of the day's business news? Not anymore? Take front page today, first "Opinion" tit
by TacticalCoder 2y ago
> You don't think the front page of the WSJ would contain a decent summary of the day's business news?
Not anymore?
Take front page today, first "Opinion" title: "The Trans Double-Mastectomy Lawsuit" (not sure what their stance is here: they went full woke but they're toning wokism down now that Trump won). First big headline: "The drugs young bankers use to get through the day". "America's love/hate relationship with corporate power".
"How an Ivy League Police Commissioner Hunted an Ivy League Murder Suspect"
Facepalm. I mean, sure, if I was reading The Guardian in the UK or something.
But how the fuck has anything of that to do with business and/or finance?
That's what I see first, front page.
Funnily enough the first title related to business or finance is one HN won't like: "These 5 Wall Street Titans Thought Bitcoin Was a Fad. Here’s What They Say Now".
People are making fun of the WJS, calling it the "Woke Street Journal". They've been more interested in pushing the ESG ideology (the one were banks in the US [and the EU] are secretly assigning scores to every US individuals depending on how "ESG friendly" they are), including solar (not that there's everything wrong with solar) and most of all running an anti-Trump / anti-Musk campaign, being sure Harris would won, then running actual news about Wall Street and businesses.
They just lost the plot.
- spondylosaurus 2y agoPeople think the WSJ is left-wing now? Good lord. The Overton window is in pieces.
- tomatotomato37 2y agoWSJ is left-wing in the sense a bunch of corporate types looked at the Occupy Wall Street movement and thought "Huh, it seems certain aspects of their ideology hinder their ability to organize labor effectively... I wonder what would happen if we amplify those aspects above all else."
- foundart 2y agoWhen I was a subscriber (about 7 years ago) it seemed the news was left-leaning and the opinion section was heavily right-leaning.
- mathgeek 2y agoInteresting observation. I’ve mostly seen opinions that is has moved to moderately conservative since Murdoch acquired it. E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/business/media/14carr.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/business/media/14carr.htm...
- carlob 2y agoreality tends to have a left-leaning bias
- fragmede 2y agotoo bad it doesn't vote
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoHard to take the phrase "full woke" seriously...