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While the Journal's editorial stance seems to the right of Reagan, Phillips rejects such a standard of measurement on the ground that the paper's conservatism predates the arrival of the Reagan crowd ("We're happy to have them in our camp, but we're not in theirs"). For the past 15 years, editorials have been the province of Robert L. Bartley, who is lean, incisive and full of certitude. His combativeness came out in a famously stormy dinner with the Journal's news staff in Washington in 1980, shortly before he won a Pulitzer Prize. But editorial writers...
...campaign against Judge Bork is shrill, mean and anti-intellectual," a Wall Street Journal editorial commented typically. Critics of the Journal's editorial page often call it strident, narrow-minded and biased. Yet many of these critics hail the Journal's news pages for their tough coverage of the editorial page's most sacred cows and of corporate misdeeds...
...Journal has long been a newspaper with a split personality -- editorials written by "true believers" and the news reported by true skeptics. The man charged with reconciling these contrary forces doesn't believe in doing so. He is Warren H. Phillips, chairman and chief executive of the parent Dow Jones & Co., a low-keyed fellow who in his own eight years as managing editor of the Journal discovered that managing editors simply disregard the elephant of the editorial page. Yet as the boss, he encourages such somber trumpetings as a recent editorial branding the President's peace initiation as "Reagan...
...Journal's contentious editorials are a throwback to the era of opinionated press lords, but with one crucial difference. In the old days, hired editorial guns often mimicked or tried to give literary plausibility to the proprietor's every prejudice, cynically crafting synthetic bluster. Journal editorial writers have more autonomy to frame policy. But before hiring them, the Journal tests to make sure their views are genuinely conservative (liberals need not apply) and that they will not be (in Phillips' words) "preoccupied with trying to find the middle of the road." Provocative opinionating, Phillips believes, "makes a stronger contribution...
...subversive speech, Bork declared that he now accepts the Brandenburg decision because it is "settled law." His capitulation was all the more surprising since only two years ago, in an interview with Conservative Digest, Bork said his First Amendment philosophy was "expressed pretty much in that 1971 Indiana Law Journal piece...