The news (I.e., the sane) side of the Wall Street Journal weighs in on the Hunter Biden affair and has very different findings from the edit page.

wsj.com/articles/hunte…

In July, 280 WSJ journalists signed a letter to the publisher that included this:

"Opinion’s lack of fact-checking and transparency, and its apparent disregard for evidence, undermine our readers’ trust and our ability to gain credibility with sources”

wsj.com/articles/wsj-j…

The edit page gave the game away tonight when they had Kim Strassel handle such a complex and sensitive story - on deadline, no less.

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Bill Grueskin

@BGrueskin

22 Oct

https://twitter.com/KimStrassel/status/1319420084410961920

Will this be as big a dud as your unmasking crusade?

https://twitter.com/KimStrassel/status/1319420084410961920

Strassel relentlessly hyped the unmasking conspiracy theory for months, then went crickets when the US Attorney assigned to the case determined there was nothing to prosecute

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Wow, I don't know how Joe Biden is going to survive this Kim Strassel paragraph that ... appears to exonerate Joe Biden

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Bill Grueskin

@BGrueskin

21 Oct

@CJR

Democrats *fret*
Democrats *fear*
Democrats *worry*

The press uses those terms much more often when writing about Democrats than Republicans -- even when Dems have $ and polling advantages.

Via @CJR

cjr.org/political_pres…

@PaulBegala

And the press isn’t completely wrong. This is an actual shot of @PaulBegala on @CNN last night.

cjr.org/political_pres…

Here’s the full primal scream AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH

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Bill Grueskin

@BGrueskin

20 Oct

When the NYT eliminated its public editor, it said "our followers on social media and readers have come together to serve as a watchdog, more vigilant than one person could ever be."

They failed to realize how the Times staff would turn on each other.

vice.com/en/article/k7a…

@Sulliview

Public editors like @Sulliview and Clark Hoyt served as a safety valve, giving staff (& readers) a legitimate resource where they could complaints, and expect a disinterested follow-through. Without the public editor, these staff are more likely to wind up at each other's throats

Also, the idea that random people on Twitter are going to extract accountability from a newsroom -- as Arthur Sulzberger Jr said at the time -- was ludicrous in 2017, and it's more so now.

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