Fortune Editor: WSJ Right to Make Trump Coverage 'Fair'
Editors should "bend over backward to make sure we give our readers fair coverage."
Count Fortune editor (and former Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor) Alan Murray as a fan of the Journal’s insistence that its coverage of Donald Trump be “fair.”
Last week, Journal editor in chief Gerard Baker went on a “surreal tangent” demanding that his editors cover Trump and his campaign fairly.
In an email to Politico, Murray said “Baker’s lecture is totally appropriate, and even necessary.”
“The fact that there’s barely a single person in the press corp who supports Trump, but a sizable segment of the nation does, suggests we have to bend over backward to make sure we give our readers fair coverage.
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