There are literally thousands of left-wing editors in this country, from top editors down to copy editors, metro editors, city editors, calendar editors, religion editors, you name it. Nobody raises an eyebrow when a person who wears a Che t-shirt on the weekends decides what gets put in a paper.
But let someone who’s an acknowledged conservative be chosen to run a news department and, well, that’s just not right. The recent appointment of Gerald Baker as The Wall Street Journal‘s deputy editor-in-chief brought crystal clarity to this double standard:
It would be one thing for Baker to move to the conservative editorial page, but the self-described “right-wing curmudgeon,” will have a role overseeing news coverage, a move that surprised some staffers because of his strong, right-wing political views.
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