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MARCH 10, 2022
Meyerson on TAP
Does The Wall Street Journal Watch Fox News?
Its editorialists, apparently, have never heard of Tucker Carlson.
By hoary tradition, The Wall Street Journal customarily has one weekly
opinion columnist who represents an alternative viewpoint to the
editorial pages' inbred, fiercely partisan, pro-plutocratic
far-right-wingishness. Over the years, those columnists have ranged from
Alexander Cockburn, whom the
**Journal**plainly engaged in the hope that his far-left ravings would
discredit all progressives, to its current designee, William Galston,
whose politics often give intellectual voice to the viewpoints of a
couple of Joes (Manchin and Lieberman).
That said, one passage in this week's Galston column
stood out for crossing the one line that the
**Journal**must enforce for all others on its editorial pages. That
passage, which ran for four full paragraphs, called out Fox News's
number one star, Tucker Carlson, for what Galston rightly termed his
"moral myopia" on Ukraine and Russia before Carlson was compelled to
shift gears when the latter attacked the former.
A search of the
**Journal**'s website for the words "Tucker Carlson" also turns up a
previous Galston column
in which he criticized Carlson for xenophobically opposing the policy of
bringing Afghans who'd aided U.S. forces to America once the Taliban
seized power. The
**Journal**'s search function, which covers the past two years,
reveals no other opinion page article that mentioned Carlson even
semi-critically.
During the same time span, however, the
**Journal**'s editorialists have frequently criticized Donald Trump,
who they fear will damage Republican electoral prospects by promoting
unelectable far-right loonies in this year's midterms and by seeking
to regain the White House in 2024. They've attacked Trump's
Putinphilia, his xenophobia, and his espousal of right-wing conspiracy
theories.
And yet, when Carlson and other Fox hosts have exhibited the same
Putinphilia, xenophobia, and conspiracy theories, the
**Journal**editorial pages have fallen silent, even though at this
point, Carlson has a larger audience than Trump.
For which silence, there can be just three explanations:
* Paul Gigot and his fellow
**Journal**editorialists don't watch Fox News and have never heard of
Tucker Carlson.
* Paul Gigot and his fellow
**Journal**editorialists don't know that Fox News is actually widely
watched by American conservatives and therefore believe it has no
appreciable role in shaping what Gigot and company consider to be the
opinions that harm real conservatives' prospects.
* Paul Gigot and his fellow
**Journal**editorialists know goddam well who Carlson is, what he says,
and how influential he is in promoting many of the same viewpoints for
which they criticize Trump when he airs them. But they also know goddam
well that they shouldn't, can't, and certainly won't criticize
Carlson and his ilk because he's the leading profit center for their
employers-News Corp and the Murdoch family.
If you believe 1 and/or 2, there's a bridge connecting Manhattan,
where News Corp is headquartered, to Brooklyn that I'm offering at a
reasonable price.
~ HAROLD MEYERSON
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