[RoddaWallPro]

I had a subscription to the WSJ for awhile. I liked it because it is consistent. It definitely has a conservative slant, especially in the opinion section, but you can "lead the shot" so to speak. You can account for it. It is reliably and consistently conservative, and being conservative is relatively consistent.

The NYT or Atlantic or New Yorker, etc? God only knows what new thing has been declared off-limits/"problematic" in the online progressive world this week, and the tone of self-righteous goodness from the progressive media is insufferable.

I feel like Matt Stone from South Park: "I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals."

[nerdponx]

The Boston Globe is a lot better than the NY Times lately. It's a nice foil to the WSJ.

[BenFranklin100]

I beg to differ. The Globe is the worst of the lot, and I say this as a Boston resident. The NYT, for all its faults, is far superior. The Globe quite literally employed fresh-out-school undergraduates for COVID reporting (whose job, apparently,was to get scare quotes from fear-mongering local academics); outside of Tim Logan the newsroom is packed with NIMBYs; Renee Graham makes it clear she doesn’t much care for white men as does Shirley “pale and male”Leung; international coverage is sparse and superficial; and it’s frequently uncritical of the Democratic political machine, something absolutely fatal in an uni-party state like MA. Overall the Globe is an amalgamation of its midwit, upper middle-class, blue, 495 suburban beltway newsroom staff and editorial board. For its $38/mos subscription price, I want something that will inform, not inculcate.

Edit: my info on the Globe is a couple years out of date now. Perhaps it has gotten better recently, maybe I should sign up for a trial and give it a second chance.

[BenFranklin100]

The WSJ opinion section has been a running gag for 50 years. It’s where they let the cranky old conservatives let off steam. But the newsroom is separate and more measured and middle of the road.