It may simply be my instinct to look for ulterior motives whenever Rupert Murdoch’s fingers touch anything, but I do believe the venerable Wall Street Journal has slid farther to the right since Murdoch acquired it. Bolstering that view, I’ve come across a recent article in the WSJ relating to passenger rail which included information…
The Wall Street Journal recently carried an opinion column bemoaning the fact that a number of improvements to passenger rail systems in the Mid-west would require some subsidy from the federal government. Of course knee-jerk conservatives, both in and out of the media, go bonkers at the very utterance of the word “subsidy”, and that was…
Over the past year or so, the Wall Street Journal has turned into a regular critic of rail transportation in general and Amtrak in particular. A recent column took Amtrak to task for not being profitable – of course! – and for needing government subsidies to operate. Essentially, it said the railroad should either break…