Article 27D60 Wall Street Journal's top editor says they won't call Trump a liar when Trump lies

Wall Street Journal's top editor says they won't call Trump a liar when Trump lies

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Cory Doctorow
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On this weekend's Meet the Press, WSJ editor in chief Gerard Baker said that even when he was clear that Trump had uttered a falsehood, his paper would not call that falsehood a lie, because to do so would ascribe "moral intent" to Trump; instead, the WSJ will call Trump's lies "challengeable" and "questionable." (more")

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