WSJ should be embarrassed and fire that writer.
Getting basic tenets of history wrong and misleading millions? What a sham.
Getting basic tenets of history wrong and misleading millions? What a sham.
"Gordon Crovitz is a media and information industry advisor and executive, including former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, executive vice president of Dow Jones and president of its Consumer Media Group."
Not exactly a random stringer.
This writer is exactly on message, they'll give him a bonus.
The fact is, that in this instance, a Murdoch owned media company is clearly distorting the truth to further a political agenda. So in this instance, it is perfectly reasonable to criticise Murdoch in particular, without having to resort to qualifications.
In my opinion of course.
That's fallacious, and that's why I called it out.
The lying part is incidental really.
It didn't sound like a defense, but an observation that, sadly, this is common behavior.
I also suspect it was a sly reference to some of the comments on HN, too.