Wall Street Journal Editors
Resist the Cancel Culture
Powerline,
by
Paul Mirengoff
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/24/2020 12:32:45 PM
Hundreds of woke employees at the Wall Street Journal signed a letter to the paper’s publisher complaining about the Journal’s op-ed page. The employees protested what they claim is the spread of “misinformation” in the Journal’s opinion section. One of the complaints focused on the publication of a column by Heather Mac Donald. The letter noted that “employees of color publicly spoke out about the pain [Mac Donald’s] Opinion piece caused them during company-held discussions surrounding diversity initiatives.” Poor babies. In response to the letter
Reply 1 - Posted by:
volksford 7/24/2020 12:52:02 PM (No. 489254)
Triggered by statues , op-eds that cause emotional pain , flags that conjure injustice that never concerned you , inner rage at people wearing red hats. YOU are a neurotic arse hole and a pathetic excuse for an American citizen !
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ho72 7/24/2020 1:02:22 PM (No. 489277)
"...the pain [Mac Donald’s] Opinion piece caused them during company-held discussions surrounding diversity initiatives."
Don't have access to the op-ed, but I'm guessing it refuted the notion that dozens of unarmed black men are being slaughtered by police on a dally basis. It is painful with facts poke holes in your narrative, eh?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Avanti1 7/24/2020 1:09:28 PM (No. 489290)
Congratulations to the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board for their free-speech stand and for their statement "we are not the New York Times."
The staff letter seems to advocate censorship in their proposed "solutions" which state "appointing journalists to specifically cover “race, ethnicity and inequality," name two standards editors specializing in diversity, conduct a study of the race, ethnicity and gender breakdown of the subjects of The Wall Street Journal's “most prominent and resource-intensive stories," and bringing more diversity to the newsroom and leadership positions."
The public should support the Wall Street Journal's position and reject that of the New York Times. Objective facts and diverse opinions are necessary to combat propaganda and pursue truth.
If the staff who composed the complaint letter do not agree with the editorial policies to the Wall Street Journal, they are free to start their own newspapers or seek employment with a publication more aligned with their beliefs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Moritz55 7/24/2020 1:22:52 PM (No. 489304)
Thanks for posting this, Dreadnought. It did my heart good.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
CactusStar 7/24/2020 1:26:46 PM (No. 489306)
Oh, the pain. Give me a break and fix your own culture instead of blaming everything and everyone else. You are better than this.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HHFi2 7/24/2020 2:13:32 PM (No. 489370)
All these whining crybabies remind me of Dr. Smith from "Lost in Space":
"Oh, the PAIN! The PAAAAIN!!..."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Delilah 7/24/2020 2:18:08 PM (No. 489378)
I subscribe to the WSJ online ONLY for the opinion page. And I quit that in 2016 because the whole paper was against Trump. I only returned when they allowed smart people to write opinion pieces and even smarter people to comment on the articles. The news section I ignore completely.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/24/2020 2:45:40 PM (No. 489425)
The NeverTrumpers and Globalists at the WSJ are reaping the whirlwind which they sowed.
Keep on NeverTrumping. See how far it's already gotten you - - and what awaits the WSJ if it continues.
Pfoooey on the WSJ - - and all NeverTrumpers!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Justcurious 7/24/2020 3:38:21 PM (No. 489466)
The best line:
In the spirit of collegiality, we won’t respond in kind to the letter signers. Their anxieties aren’t our responsibility in any case.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cny 7/24/2020 3:49:32 PM (No. 489475)
FTA: "Their anxieties aren’t our responsibility in any case." That is wonderful to hear, and a LOT more people in charge should be saying it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 7/24/2020 4:30:22 PM (No. 489510)
If I owned the journal, any employee who didn't like the editorial comments of the paper they worked for could take a hike.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 7/24/2020 5:56:27 PM (No. 489607)
We need to continually watch what the owners/publishers do with this. If they take action against the opinion side; there needs to be powerful public push back. The little left wing puss filled fake journalist should be fired and in a break line somewhere. I think this country has just about had it with the likes of them.
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