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For The Wall Street Journal, the Climate Call is Coming From Inside the House | When will the Journal’s editorial board wake up to reality? (newrepublic.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Editoral Board at the WSJ is the equivalent of 'old man shakes fist at sky'. I habitually read the Opinions section almost daily because I hate myself and the takes included are mostly just bad but the ones penned by the 'Editoral Board' are especially egregious. They read like someone's smarmy grandpa got ahold of Twitter and thinks the libs are why the grandkids don't come visit.

Don't hold your breath that the editorial board will change their tune.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stopped subscribing to them a long time ago when they published an piece which was in favor of monarchy in the US. Definitely completely out of touch with what works.

I do post gift links to their hard news articles when they cover climate, but am completely dependent on others to share those with me since I'm not willing to financially support their editorial page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh this wasn't comming at you. It's more that I will shit all over the WSJ editorial board every chance I get.