I resurrected my subscription when COVID hit but cancelled again after three months

280 WSJ reporters, editors and staff demand control over op-ed opinion pieces.

Employees at The Wall Street Journal are pushing publisher Almar Latour to crack down on “misinformation” published in the paper’s opinion pages.

A group of more than 280 WSJ reporters, editors, and other staff sent a letter to Latour on Tuesday calling for more separation between the paper’s news and opinion sections online. The letter also asked for more freedom for reporters to critique opinion articles online and said the opinion staff should be more restrictive in what it chooses to publish, according to WSJ which reported on the letter.

The letter also pointed to a June 2 op-ed by The Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald titled “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism.” Mac Donald argued that the “charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years and remains so today. … A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing. Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions.”

While the article has not been updated with a correction, [because there was nothing to correct - ED] the letter accuses Mac Donald of cherry-picking data and drawing an “erroneous conclusion.”

“Employees of color publicly spoke out about the pain this Opinion piece caused them during company-held discussions surrounding diversity initiatives,” the letter continues, adding if the “company is serious about better supporting its employees of color, at a bare minimum it should raise Opinion’s standards so that misinformation about racism isn’t published.”

I gave up on the Journal some years ago after some 40-years of readership because I thought the reporters were tilting their articles, but renewed it when I was looking for objective reporting on Kung Flu; I didn’t find it. The drift left had only increased during my three-year layoff, so I cancelled again. Journal Publisher Almar Latour has rejected these flacks’ demand, for now, but if there are 280 fact-twisters at the paper already there, there will certainly be more to come. These children, traitors to journalism, infest the newsrooms today; NYT reporters feel “unsafe” when they encounter an opinion different from their own, Wall Street Journal reporters “feel pain”. Oh, boo hoo.

They’ve emerged from the saferooms and cuddle bunnies provided them by their college deans when conservative speakers were on campus, and they’ve dragged their bankies with them into the press room.

There were those, and I was one, who chortled at the woes and temper tantrums of these snowflakes, awaiting with gleeful anticipation their arrival in “the real world”. We were wrong; they brought their mini-Marxism sensitivities and virtue with them, and are transforming the world, just as intended by their masters.