Congrats to the NYTimes

For printing this letter:

To the Editor:

Re “Tilting Rightward at Journal” (The Media Equation, Business Day, Dec. 14):

I was amused by David Carr’s column about what he says is a rightward tilt in some news articles and headlines in The Wall Street Journal since the paper was acquired by Rupert Murdoch.

It isn’t that I haven’t noticed the same thing on a few occasions. It’s that my eye for political bias in what should be objective news reporting has been acutely sharpened over the last decade by countless instances of an unmistakable leftward slant in the articles and headlines that appear (and don’t appear) in The New York Times.

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are both excellent newspapers. But the principle of caveat lector applies to both — as it does to everything in print or digits.

Howard F. Jaeckel
New York

Brave act.

Easier than, say, jumping out of despair over professional journalism failure: