Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/18

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Was anti-war stuff, is now, gasp, "Some of my friends are Republicans"
From: Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:24:01 -0500
References: <3E515EF1.7C35E46@hemenway.com> <00d601c2d704$89bf93b0$0316fea9@ccasony01>
 
2003-02-17-23:16:40 bdcolen:
> Sorry to shock you, Jim, but the truth is that while I find the
> Editorial Page and OpEd offerings of the Wall Street Journal utterly
> repulsive, I think that a good deal of its news coverage ranks with the
> best in the country. In fact, Ed and OpEd pages aside, the Journal is
> one of the best three or four papers in America... 

He's got a point there.  There's a pretty dramatic dichotomy: the
editorials tend to look as if they were written by "Ed Anger" of the
Weekly World News, but the actual news coverage seems remarkably
balanced.  Indeed, I think the WSJ consistently wins awards for its
international coverage.
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