Letters to the Editor
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The separation between the moronic WSJ editorial page was declining
I am sorry to admit that I subscribed to the WSJ for over 25 years. I regret that I did not cancel my subscription years ago.
There are and have been many fine journalists at the WSJ, which is why I subscribed. Back in the day when the editorial page was holding Michael Milken up as an American hero of capitalism who was being unjustly persectued, James Stewart was writing front page news articles describing how Miliken had conspired to illegally control the market for high risk bonds. The separation between the wingnut morons of the editorial page and the rest of the paper has been reduced in the last few years. This became noticable with the book reviews, which were increasingly assigned to writers from Wingnut publications like the National Review. The stain of the G.W. Bush cult of personality spread into articles on the economy and politics. I wrote a letter to the publisher, Karen Elliot House, accusing the paper of being little more than a Republican propaganda organ and never criticizing Dear Leader (G.W. Bush). She wrote back and said that they had, in fact, harshly criticized Bush's steel tarrifs. I finaly got disgusted and did not renew my subscription.
I view the purchase of WSJ by News Corp. as a point on the path that the Journal was headed down in any case. The management of the Journal seemed to believe the garbage that was published on the editorial page. Like a parasite that finishes off an already diseased host Murdoch will finish off the WSJ. Thankfully, there is still the New York Times, which has some excellent business journalism.