CNN: “The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion section published a lengthy letter to the editor from Donald Trump on Wednesday that was full of the former US president’s debunked claims and conspiratorial falsehoods about the election he lost last year. The Journal’s opinion operation is separate from the newsroom and sometimes downright oppositional. But both are part of Rupert Murdoch’s cherished newspaper. Several Journal reporters grumbled about the letter after it came out on Wednesday, but none were surprised it was published, given the opinion section’s right-wing contrarian bent.”
“‘I think it’s very disappointing that our opinion section continues to publish misinformation that our news side works so hard to debunk,’ one of the reporters said. ‘They should hold themselves to the same standards we do!’ So what was the justification for publishing the letter to the editor? No comment, thus far. Jeremy Barr of the Washington Post inquired, but ‘Steve Severinghaus, a spokesman for the Journal, declined to comment about the decision to publish the letter. When asked specifically about the newspaper’s standards for publishing a letter, he did not respond.'”