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Re:We’re losing the information war by maxerickson on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:05AM (#14003258)
WSJ is at least center-right.
Re:We’re losing the information war by DashRattlesnake on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:38AM (#14003595)
I've heard its newsroom is even more liberal that the NYT, but it's very professional so it's hard to tell.
Re:We’re losing the information war by enraged_camel on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:02PM (#14005137)
Its news coverage is inarguably center-right (since it caters to a primarily business audience), but its opinion pieces are quite liberal.
Re:We’re losing the information war by DashRattlesnake on Sunday April 02, 2017 @12:39PM (#14017741)
> but its opinion pieces are quite liberal

The WSJ? What are you talking about? It's opinion pages are famously conservative.

Re:We’re losing the information war by JohnTHaller on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:51AM (#14003738)
It's owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp of "fair and balanced" Fox News fame.
Re:We’re losing the information war by dude01 on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:24AM (#14003454)
That's true, but their opinion/editorial pages are extreme right-leaning, they're different teams.
Re:We’re losing the information war by tomhoward on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:44AM (#14003670)
“Extreme right”?

Some proportionality would be good. “Extreme” when used in the context of political ideology implies some form of totalitarianism; i.e., Nazism, Fascism (extreme right), Stalinism, Maoism (extreme left).

The WSJ, from the little of it I read, tends to adopt generally classical liberal or libertarian positions; i.e, moderately right-leaning economically, moderately liberal on social issues, generally in favour of more liberty across the board, and thus opposed to authoritarianism.

There's a valid debate to be had about the merits of these positions, but to describe the WSJ as “extreme right” does an injustice to the many who've suffered and died – and who continue to do so to this day – due to genuinely extreme political ideologies.

Re:We’re losing the information war by dude01 on Monday April 03, 2017 @06:00PM (#14027608)
Sorry for late reply, but I totally did not mean the word "extreme" like you are talking about. I meant extreme as in, my expectations for a newspaper opinion section with the heft of the WSJ should contain wisdom and NOT be mostly a cheer-leader for one side of the political spectrum.
Re:We’re losing the information war by griffinmmahon on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:36AM (#14004202)
I basically do not take issue with your dissection of terms here.

However I have seen another bit of your logic elsewhere and strongly disagree with it: the idea that mislabelling (or even correctly labelling) something "does an injustice" or "is a disservice" or "would be offensive to" people who died in the past at the hands of someone/something. We only have an obligation to make the lives of current and future people better: people who have died because of hatred would surely appreciate us doing our best to combat hatred in the modern world.

Re:We’re losing the information war by tomhoward on Friday March 31, 2017 @11:01AM (#14004471)
I'm not sure I see where the disagreement is.

I agree that making life better for people today and in the future is what matters most. And I think an important step in doing that is to heed the lessons of history, which includes having sympathy for the suffering of those who've gone before.

Re:We’re losing the information war by griffinmmahon on Friday March 31, 2017 @11:14AM (#14004626)
Sure, we're agreeing. I just take issue with the idea that it is possible to do an injustice against the dead over word choice. I probably jumped too quick, though, and maybe shouldn't have commented. Sorry if any of this came off as combative!
Re:We’re losing the information war by tomhoward on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:19PM (#14005282)
Fair enough :) I see what you're getting st, thanks for sharing your thoughts.