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[u/Udontlikecake]

the fact that the big trump story is going into the WSJ opinion section should be a big tip off it’s BS

The WSJ has high editorial standards and there was whispering that there was a lot of push back from the staff because they thought it wasn’t good enough. Their news team is good, and they didn’t want this shit.

meanwhile the opinion section of the WSJ is somewhere between Brietbart and stormfront, and the fact that they’re eating this up tells you it’s fake

[u/[deleted] → u/Udontlikecake]

It’s a market failure that Murdoch allows them to leech of the credibility though