Talk:Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Can we please expand this article

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Did the Journal under Grant really refuse to carry syndicated material? I'm reading a lot of 1950s Journals and seeing a lot of what looks like syndicated material to me! --Orange Mike 23:33, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Political position

I don't think it's a good idea for an encylcopedia article to be tagging a newspaper with a "political position". It's too reductive and simplistic; not to mention that it violates Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" policy. And speaking as someone who has read the newspaper all of my life, I don't think that is an accurate assessment of its editorial stance. Since it merger of the Journal and the Sentinel in 1995, the editorials have shown more of the Sentinel's conservativism than the Journal's liberalism.

So, the question is, who decides what to call the paper's "political position"?— Walloon 01:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry I didn't reply eariler. First off all, nearly all major newspapers have a politcal stance for their editorial board. The Chicago Tribune is conservative, the Chicago Sun-Times is liberal. The New York Times is liberal, the now gone New York Herald was conservative. And so on... As a long time resident of Milwaukee (I've moved to Chicago recently) I read the Journal Sentinel daily. I do not think that is controversial to say that the Journal Sentinel's editorial board is reliably liberal. It may not be Mother Jones, but that doesn't make it conservative. — Linnwood 04:11, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

So, who decides what to call the paper's "political position"? — Walloon 05:01, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

In an ideal world, the paper's editorial staff should be the ones to make that subjective call. --Chancemichaels 15:05, 4 January 2007 (UTC)Chancemichaels