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Is Murdoch's Wall Street Journal About to Dump Trump?

Aug 13, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -52% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    95% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -10% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : But Trump stood firm, and Vance got the job.
66% : On Saturday, new New York Times polls showed Harris leading Trump in multiple swing states.
62% : "He's 100 percent sharp -- he's as sharp as a tack," Trump told the hosts.
61% : Trump told podcast hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton that he and Murdoch speak "a lot," and Murdoch made a rare appearance at the Republican National Convention last month.
55% : "Trump Meets Half the Moment in His RNC Speech," read the headline on a Journal editorial board piece hours after the speech.
52% : "If Trump carries on like this, who knows -- Murdoch may feel, as the campaign enters its dying days, to do what he did in Britain, and turn his back on the leading right-wing candidate and support Harris.
46% : Regardless, this presidential election is not just the battle of Harris and Trump, but a reckoning for two powerful men who find themselves yoked together -- the best of frenemies.
40% : "Whether Trump heeds it, however, is another matter.
38% : One on Sunday attacked her reversal on single-payer healthcare, while a Thursday editorial questioned her bona fides as a potential commander-in-chief.
37% : That stated support written in either or both outlets -- one totemic for the business community, the other for New York -- would not only represent an emphatic rejection of Trump by two communities whose approval Trump so desires, it would be from a mogul whose audiences he has courted so ferociously and effectively.
26% : The conservative-leaning Journal editorial board has never appeared eager to anoint Trump, with its November 2022 editorial titled "Trump Is the Republican Party's Biggest Loser," following Republicans' razor-thin midterm wins that cycle, serving as a prime example of its frustration toward his temperament.
25% : Murdoch likely hopes Trump means those words, if the advice his Journal editorial board has offered Trump and Republicans is any indication: "The former President will have to make a case on policy, rather than personal insults, and that isn't his strength," read a July 24 editorial.
23% : The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty, that Murdoch even and often wished Trump were dead.
18% : Perhaps Trump -- in his pick of Vance, despite Murdoch's antipathy -- has made his own calculations about what he does and does not need from Murdoch.
12% : Murdoch is infamous for calling his editors almost daily, and when he vehemently opposed Trump's pick of Vance last month, he reportedly dispatched Post columnists and executives to meet with Trump and urge him to consider someone else.
9% : While neither the Wall Street Journal nor New York Post has yet to fully jettison their support of Trump, they have effectively channeled Murdoch's discontent at how Trump is running his campaign against Kamala Harris through august, high-minded sermonizing in the WSJ and screaming front-page headlines in the Post.
9% : As Trump has spent weeks defining Harris' presidential candidacy through racist attacks and baseless crowd conspiracies, it has been left to the two newspapers to vocalize what Murdoch and his editors see as the policy and personality contrasts between the two that the billionaire media mogul would dearly love Trump to major on beyond his relentless, vicious, mad-sounding attacks.
6% : On Saturday, Trump called Harris a "RADICAL LEFT LUNATIC.
5% : Yet the paper has still oscillated between defending (and advising) Trump and attacking President Joe Biden.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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