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Myth of the conservative Wall Street Journal By Paul Sperry

Much has been written about the New York Times’ pro-homosexual agenda.[...] But did you know that liberal homosexuals for years have helped decide what goes on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, commonly cited as a bastion of conservatism?

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But wait a minute. Isn’t the Journal’s editor, Robert Bartley, a Reagan conservative?

Yes, and this is how the myth of the conservative Wall Street Journal survives. Bartley may have “editor” as his title, but he has virtually no say in news coverage nor role in setting the news agenda at the paper. That falls to Steiger. Bartley controls the opinion side of the paper – the editorial pages – and is otherwise a figurehead for the paper.

In fact, Bartley and Steiger work in separate parts of the Journal’s Manhattan building. [...]Yet Bartley and his crew of conservative, free-market editorial writers are in one department, and Steiger and his crew of supposedly “objective” news reporters are in another.

And they despise each other.

According to former Journal staffers, Steiger’s reporters commonly refer to Bartley’s writers as “Nazis” or, more charitably, “kookie right-wingers,” and won’t have anything to do with them.

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Fact is, the Journal’s news and editorial departments are as politically polarized as North and South Korea.