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by rflec028 1742 days ago
wsj.com is not a trustworthy news source and should not be posted.
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colinmhayes 1742 days ago
You're thinking of their opinion section. The reporting is solid.
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fortuna86 1742 days ago
Which is another argument for scrapping the opinion section of every newspaper, it confuses people.

But they keep it for the same reason FB doesn't turn down their own volume, angry people make for better customers.

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OneEyedRobot 1742 days ago
>Which is another argument for scrapping the opinion section of every newspaper, it confuses people.

At this point, I'd say that that's the entire newspaper. They operate in the same ad space as Facebook.

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fortuna86 1742 days ago
Respectfully I disagree. The opinion section is fundamentally different (and damaging) to the news reporting, and shouldn't exist. But opinion content is many times more popular than straight news, it seems people like being told what to think.
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OneEyedRobot 1742 days ago
I think that news has extended quite far into op-ed space. There's a combination of just what news is reported and just how a thing is worded.

Modern newspapers and news magazines (they still exist?) don't read at all like the ones from 50 years ago.

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badRNG 1742 days ago
Why do you say that? Content here seems pretty reasonable most of the time.
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Pxtl 1742 days ago
WSJ's editorial pages have a long and storied history of supporting conservative positions that are utterly disconnected from reality, for example on climate change or the Iraq war. These are not trivial matters that we should quickly forgive them over.
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