Re: Question from BBC

[Lynda Casden <lyndac...>]

My husband believes that the Wall Street Journal is owned by the British and
is very slanted against the United States in general.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy A Schiffer" <schiffer (at) columbia(dot)edu>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 12:01 PM
Subject: RE: Question from BBC


>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Ed Sieb wrote:
>
> > The BBC?  Really?
> >
> > Britain's last refuge for the progressive anti-Semite contingent, and
the
> > smug elite's Jew-haters.
> >
> > http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110003844
>
>
> For the Wall Street Journal's editorial page to be opining on other news
> companies' biases is truly the pot calling the kettle black. The WSJ is
> without a doubt the most ideologically driven mainstream publication in
> America (as long as one doesn't consider RM Sciafe's publications
> mainstream).
>
> We're talking about the magazine that earlier this year published an
> editorial calling for the raising of taxes on poor people - so that they'd
> learn to hate the government as much as rich people do!
>
> I'll stay out of the rest of this discussion, but I cannot let someone's
> use of the WSJ as a source for 'unbiased' reporting go unchallenged.
>
> -jeremy
> http://klezmer.org
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