This week, the Wall Street Journal opinion section published an op-ed about our tax coverage.
We don't typically comment on our newsgathering process, but this opinion essay has factual errors in the headline and in the essay that should be corrected.
We've submitted this to their editors:
Are headlines supposed to be accurate?
When I raise the issue of inaccurate headlines I regularly get so pushback from nominal journalists about how I haven't read the full article.
I mean technically yes, they do need to be, but there is a helluva lot of wiggle room on what’s accurate. With the right words, you can make an extremely inflammatory clickbait headline that is still technically accurate.
As much as a lot of leftists don’t like it, there’s a reason breaking news articles about race-based violence don’t flat-out say someone was murdered, because if the trial decides it isn’t murder, now that news org has to deal with libel.
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