Wall Street Journal criticized for Trump letter pushing election lie

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Earlier DU thread: Wall Street Journal publishes letter from Trump claiming 'rigged' election

Related:
• Wall Street Journal publishes letter from Trump claiming ‘rigged’ election (Washington Post)
• The 14 things you need to know about Trump’s letter in the Wall Street Journal (Washington Post)

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Source: The Guardian

Wall Street Journal criticized for Trump letter pushing election lie

Former president’s letter, written in response to an editorial on Pennsylvania voting laws, contains a list of disproved claims

Adam Gabbatt
@adamgabbatt
Thu 28 Oct 2021 16.35 BST

The Wall Street Journal has been criticized after it published a letter by Donald Trump in which the former president continued to push his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged”.

The former president’s letter, written in response to a WSJ editorial about voting law in Pennsylvania, claims, wrongly, that “the election was rigged, which you, unfortunately, still haven’t figured out”.

The 600-word letter contains a bullet-point list of disproved claims – many of which have been debunked by WSJ reporters – which Trump claims show there was voter fraud. There was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, as several independent and partisan reviews have confirmed.

Several WSJ reporters were unhappy with the publication of the letter, CNN reported, which comes after what had been a successful few weeks for the WSJ, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The newspaper’s Facebook Files investigation revealed, through internal documents, how high-profile users were not subject to the same standards as regular users, and that Facebook was aware that Instagram, which it owns, is toxic for teenage girls.

The decision to publish Trump’s spurious letter threatens to undermine that journalism, despite a newspaper’s editorial board typically being separate from the newsroom.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/28/trump-election-letter-wall-street-journal-lie-criticism

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1. As they should be. It's been almost a full year and the Failed Pumpkin can't LET IT GO

There was no good reason to post the Failed Pumpkin's screed. NONE

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2. Here is an excerpt from one of the WaPo articles.

Media

Wall Street Journal publishes letter from Trump claiming ‘rigged’ election

The publication of the letter, citing baseless and debunked claims, was criticized for pushing the traditional boundaries of a letters-to-the-editor page

By Jeremy Barr
Yesterday at 7:36 p.m. EDT

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The Journal’s right-leaning opinion page has often been at odds with the newspaper’s newsroom. In July 2020, after the opinion page published an essay by Vice President Mike Pence headlined “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave,’ ” nearly 300 Journal staffers sent a letter to the paper’s publisher that asked for more delineation between news reporting and commentary and called out the opinion section’s “lack of fact-checking and transparency.” The editorial board responded with a column decrying the letter as an effort at “cancel-culture pressure.”

Link to tweet

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By Jeremy Barr
Jeremy Barr covers breaking news about the media industry for The Washington Post. Twitter https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr

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