# How much have Wall Street Journal editorial views changed? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 4, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585 "2011-10-04T18:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585/21 "2011-10-05T13:22:23Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > IMHO the WSJ editorial page is less transparently conservative than the NYT Week in Review is transparently liberal. And the WSJ news sections aren’t biased at all IMHO, whereas the NYT spreads its blatant liberal bias throughout every section (the Sunday magazine even has liberal recipes for godsakes). WTF is a liberal recipe ? “Sprinkle the nutmeg. Add a quart of milk. Pour in the social justice and mix by hand until your society has a syrupy, classless consistency…” ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585/22 "2011-10-05T13:42:45Z")
It’s an imaginary thing that’s used by trolls to, well … troll. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585/23 "2011-10-05T13:58:53Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > WTF is a liberal recipe ? They’re identical to conservative recipes, with a few minor edits: 1. [del]Have the help[/del] preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. 2. [del]Have the help[/del] combine the dry ingredients in a bowl. 3. [del]Have the help[/del] mix the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse meal. (Etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585/24 "2011-10-05T14:00:59Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > WTF is a liberal recipe ? “Sprinkle the nutmeg. Add a quart of milk. Pour in the social justice and mix by hand until your society has a syrupy, classless consistency…” I think **RR** may have misinterpreted an instruction to sprinkle an ingredient liberally. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585/25 "2011-10-05T14:05:26Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I think **RR** may have misinterpreted an instruction to sprinkle an ingredient liberally. Made me laugh. Hard. +rep ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585/26 "2011-10-05T14:18:00Z")
The WSJ editorials today are watered-down pap compared to the fire and brimstone they used to spit in earlier decades. You haven’t lived until you’ve read a WSJ Jimmy Carter rant. Hell, as late as the Nineties they published like _four full volumes_ of ranting on Whitewater and Vincent Foster, which they then offered in bound editions like it was the Collected Works of Shakespeare. _I_ used to read it for shits and giggles, and I’m a conservative. The stuff today is watered-down pap, I tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585/27 "2011-10-05T15:34:10Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > WTF is a liberal recipe ? It’s like a regular recipe, only everything’s half-baked. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585/28 "2011-10-05T15:36:14Z")
Tofu bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585/29 "2011-10-05T17:45:20Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Tofu bacon. Pretty sure we’re well into Nazi cooking at this point. [QUOTE=RNATB] I think **RR** may have misinterpreted an instruction to sprinkle an ingredient liberally. [/QUOTE] 5.8 ; 5.6 ; 5.6 ; 5.9 ; 5.7 and the Russian judge gives it a rare 6.0 (I miss old school ice-skating scoring :() ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585/30 "2011-10-07T16:27:56Z")
Either I didn’t used to pay attention to their editorial page or their editorial page has gotten much much worse. With that said, its still a useful paper for filtering the news that is most relevant to me and for providing a business perspective to news items. At some point they started to write stories that assumed that the tax revenue would increase if you cut taxes and that is when I realized that their reporting was no longer reliable. No responsible serious tax expert thinks that tax revenues could increase by a further cut in the tax rate. You may be in favor of or against taxes but if you are lying if you say that tax cuts increase the revenue. It was the basic building block behind the Republican push to cut taxes without having to cut spending (the tax cuts will pay for themselves) and it doesn’t work, not at these tax rates (it works when you cut top marginal rates from 92% to 70% or from 70% to 50% but not when you cut them from 40% to 35% and certainly not if you cut them from 35% to 25% or 15% or 9%)… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-have-wall-street-journal-editorial-views-changed/598585.md?page=1)