The Wall Street Journal published an editorial insisting, “These pages won’t wilt under cancel-culture pressure.” jonathanchait writes that it's another in a long line of Journal editorial page persecution fantasies
Photo: Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images The Wall Street Journal editorial page is an essential organ to follow the Republican Party line. Facts like evidence of global warming and the loss of revenue from tax cuts bounce harmlessly off its adamantine dogma, which is altered only when the party control of the White House changes hands, and the Journal reverses all its principled arguments on process.
The shakiest bullet point is a request that the opinion page implement fact-checking procedures. The other ideas on the list seem eminently reasonable. The reporters ask the paper to more clearly and explicitly delineate its news content from its opinion, on the grounds that readers and sources alike need to understand the difference in order to insulate the high standards of the news coverage from the rock-bottom standards of the opinion side.
The opinion side could reasonably object that requiring it to fact-check its screeds would be tantamount to cancellation. Perhaps for obvious reasons, it doesn’t make that case. Nor does the editorial acknowledge the news side’s primary requests to simply label news and opinion content more clearly.
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