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'No Global Warming'? Critics Slam 2 Articles

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:34:00 CST

Science writers are in a tizzy over two articles this weekend that deny the existence of global warming. One, signed by 16 scientists in the Wall Street Journal , notes "the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now." It argues that a world economy unburdened by carbon controls...

GOP Botched Payroll Tax Fight

Kevin Spak — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:51:31 CST

The Wall Street Journal is furious with the GOP over the way it has handled what it terms the “ payroll tax fiasco ” in a scathing editorial today. “How did the Republicans manage to lose the tax issue to Obama?” the editors marvel. “GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat...

Obama's Plan 'Bolder, Better Than Expected'

Mark Russell — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:48:05 CDT

Pundits handed out good grades aplenty for President Obama's new jobs proposal last night, with generally positive feedback from liberals like Paul Krugman—but also from conservatives like David Frum and Andrew Sullivan. Krugman writes in the New York Times that he was "favorably surprised by the new Obama jobs...

Wall Street Journal Pans Romney's Job Plan

Kevin Spak — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:26:22 CDT

Mitt Romney’s big list of 59 economic policy prescriptions is a swing and a miss, as far as the famously conservative editors of the Wall Street Journal are concerned. “We’ll say this for it: His ideas are better than President Obama’s,” the editors write. But they’re also “surprisingly timid and...

WSJ : Our Murdoch Coverage Wasn't Good Enough

Rob Quinn — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:18:00 CDT

The Wall Street Journal did a lousy job of initially covering Rupert Murdoch's phone hacking scandal, admits the paper's special editorial committee. The paper was "slower than it should have been at the outset to pursue the phone-hacking scandal story" and failed to ask tough questions when it interviewed Rupert...

WSJ : Stop Using Hacking Scandal to 'Assail' Us

M Cantor — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:59:15 CDT

Those at the Wall Street Journal —and "thousands of other journalists"—don’t deserve to be implicated in a mess caused by a single British tabloid, write the editors of the Journal , whose own publisher, Les Hinton, recently stepped down amid the phone hacking scandal . In a lengthy defense of their...

WSJ Publisher, Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton Resigns

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:12:02 CDT

Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignation of the Wall Street Journal 's publisher today as the once-defiant media mogul struggles to control the escalating phone hacking scandal. The controversy claimed its first victim in the United States as Les Hinton, chief executive of the Murdoch-owned Dow Jones & co. and publisher...

Murdoch: This Won't Sink Us

John Johnson — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:15:05 CDT

Even with the FBI and British parliament snooping around now, Rupert Murdoch thinks News Corp will come out of this phone hacking mess just fine, thank you very much. In an interview with the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal , he says the damage is "nothing that will not be recovered," adding...

Family Regrets Selling Wall Street Journal to Murdoch

Tim Karan — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:31:12 CDT

Members of the family that sold the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch have a whole new kind of seller's remorse. Some in the Bancroft family tell Pro Publica they never would have agreed to sell the newspaper to Murdoch in 2007 if they knew the scope of News International's...