I have been reading the WSJ daily since I entered college in 1980. That’s 45 years of reading one paper. The WSJ used to be very good. It still has some good writers. However, much of the paper has lost its objectivity. It’s either gone woke, or the Trump Derangement Syndrome of the writer is so bad it is impossible to get decent information.
When the world went digital, the WSJ forced me to take a paper. Then, my friend who never subscribed sent me this. I am paying almost $150 a quarter.
I canceled my subscription to the FT. It became a terrible paper. It is not as if I can’t find stock information and other pertinent financial information anywhere else.
I think what print papers miss is the advantage they might have. They are so focused on getting clicks instead. What they should do is in-depth objective stories that you won’t find on platforms like X. Real research.
I don’t want to know the stuff about Palantir that I can find using a simple web search. I want to know why Palantir does what it does, what kind of people it hires, and what kind of corporate culture it has. I want insights I can’t get from numbers. The same goes for any other company.
The younger writers weren’t taught journalism in Journalism School. They were taught indoctrination, which is how they write. They are also kind of dumb when it comes to understanding how businesses operate.
X is the best platform in the world for breaking news. With long-form tweets, it is rapidly becoming the best platform for understanding things. Whoever invested in X when Elon took it over is going to make a lot of money.
I will miss a few of the writers at the WSJ. But, I won’t be renewing my subscription for now.
UPDATE
The Wall Street Journal hired a reporter who used to work for USAID and Business Insider to target the kids doing the stuff at $DOGE specifically.
She is an evil, unethical liar. I have personal experience with her.
David Portnoy and Ackman along with plenty of others have been targeted for hit piece type stories at Business Insider. I wrote for BI for a very short period of time (unpaid) when it was starting out. They stopped taking my stuff because it was objective and not left-wing enough. Especially when I was critical of Obama.
This chain of tweets will reveal exactly who is doxxing and targeting $DOGE. Why is the WSJ against $DOGE? Just a point of information. Obama created $DOGE. Trump renamed it $DOGE. So, it’s not an “unconstitutional department”.
Here is our intrepid “reporter” Katherine Long on Linked IN. Here is her Twitter.
This is a good time to note that I started at the Wall Street Journal last week! If you work with or around DOGE, I'd love to speak with you. My email address is katherine.long@wsj.com and I'm on Signal at longka.38. Use a non-work device to contact me.
She is unafraid because she has a bigger cover than just the Wall Street Journal.
Apparently, the DOGE people scrubbed their social media before working for DOGE. One way to uncover scrubbed data is to use the CIA. Is the CIA working with the WSJ to dox government employees?
He did, they somehow got his deleted posts from a tiny anon account. Has to be intelligence involvement. There's no way people were archiving random X accounts.
The Wall Street Journal should answer for this. No doubt, they won’t. If you needed a reason to cancel your subscription, I just gave you one.
These young leftists are pretty evil people.
Like you, I started reading the WSJ in college. It is not the same newspaper it once was. I have dropped my subscription a few different times, only to try it again and be disappointed again.
The last time I resubscribed it was because it was so inexpensive to do so.
I still check in on it to see what they are covering, but only briefly.
The reporting was always a bit left-of-center, but that was okay. Today its reporting is like all the other crap out there.
Agreed. I've become even more addicted to X since 1/20. Even most websites can't keep up. I can't imagine being chained to something printed on dead trees. Substack is a close second.