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====Pre-Murdoch ownership==== The ''Journal''{{'}}s editors stress the independence and impartiality of their reporters.<ref name="Crovitz" /> According to CNN in 2007, the ''Journal''<nowiki/>'s "newsroom staff has a reputation for non-partisan reporting."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/2007/07/31/news/companies/dowjones_newscorp/ |title=News Corp.-Dow Jones finally a done deal |date=August 1, 2007 |first=Paul R. |last=La Monica |website=CNN Money |access-date=January 1, 2019 |archive-date=November 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126130502/https://money.cnn.com/2007/07/31/news/companies/dowjones_newscorp/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Ben Smith of the ''New York Times'' described the ''Journal''<nowiki/>'s news reporting as "small-c [conservative]", and noted that its readership leans further to the right than that of other major newspapers.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Ben|date=October 25, 2020|title=Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn't Buy It. |work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-biden-wall-street-journal-trump.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025224009/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-biden-wall-street-journal-trump.html |archive-date=October 25, 2020 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|access-date=October 26, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Under the ownership of Clarence W. Barron, the ''Journal'' generally restricted editorializing to its opinion pages, but a 1922 series of news articles described the [[organized labor]] movement as having "one of the most sordid records of humanity".{{sfn|Scharff|1986|pp=[https://archive.org/details/worldlypowermaki0000scha/page/16/mode/2up?q=%22most+sordid+records%22 16-17]}} In a 2004 study, Tim Groseclose and [[Jeffrey Milyo]] argue the ''Journal''{{'s}} news pages have a pro-liberal bias because they more often quote liberal think tanks. They calculated the ideological attitude of news reports in 20 media outlets by counting the frequency they cited particular [[think tank]]s and comparing that to the frequency that legislators cited the same think tanks. They found that the news reporting of the ''Journal'' was the most liberal (more liberal than [[NPR]] or ''[[The New York Times]]''). The study did not factor in editorials.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Groseclose |first1=T. |last2=Milyo |first2=J. |doi=10.1162/003355305775097542 |title=A Measure of Media Bias |journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics |volume=120 |issue=4 |page=1191 |year=2005 |s2cid=54066953 |doi-access= }}</ref> [[Mark Liberman]] criticized the model used to calculate bias in the study and argued that the model unequally affected liberals and conservatives and that "the model starts with a very peculiar assumption about the relationship between political opinion and the choice of authorities to cite." The authors assume that "think tank ideology ... only matters to liberals."<ref>{{cite web| last=Liberman| first=Mark| title=Linguistics, Politics, Mathematics| publisher=Language Log| date=December 22, 2005| url=http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002723.html| access-date=November 6, 2006| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060910105642/http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002723.html| archive-date=September 10, 2006| df=mdy-all}}</ref> The company's planned and eventual acquisition by [[News Corp]] in 2007 led to significant media criticism and discussion about whether the news pages would exhibit a rightward slant under [[Rupert Murdoch]].<ref>{{cite news| last = Shafer | first = Jack| title = The Murdoch Street Journal| work = Slate| date = May 7, 2007| url = https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/05/the-murdoch-street-journal-not-for-me-thanks.html| access-date = September 7, 2008| url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080918203139/http://www.slate.com/id/2165749/| archive-date = September 18, 2008| df = mdy-all}}</ref> An August 1, 2007, editorial responded to the questions by asserting that Murdoch intended to "maintain the values and integrity of the ''Journal''".<ref> {{cite news| title = A New Owner| work = The Wall Street Journal| date = August 1, 2007| url = http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010409| access-date = September 7, 2008| url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090625154530/http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010409| archive-date = June 25, 2009| df = mdy-all}}</ref>
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