Talk:Investor's Business Daily
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Previous edits were heavily opinionated, focused excessively on the political aspect of the newspaper, and failed to discuss the main purpose of the newspaper: providing investors with info on stocks.
I tried to explain the purpose of the newspaper and what is included within the newspaper's sections. I hope my edits are an improvement and that others can expand on them.
I also don't know how to put in the references (from the William O'neil section), can someone help out with those? Whatthree16 01:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding the political bias of the paper
Yes the paper has been criticized for taking a very pro war stance. However, it it is quite true that the editorial section is secondary to the main focus of the paper. The paper has posted editorials stating that its stance is right wing.
That being said, it might be appropriate to include a paragraph stating that its editorial sections lean towards the right and the paper has been criticized for this, especially in regards to its stance on the middle east. It should also state that other than the editorial section, the paper simple reports information on businesses that help the reader invest according to the founders system. I don't think anyone would debate such a paragraph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zippy1981 (talk • contribs) 16:22, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I would be curious, Zippy, if you are as full of fire regarding the Open Society Institute's lean towards the left and what the IBD itself calls The Soros Threat To Democracy. Asteriks 13:07, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] June 2007
I've just made several changes to the article:
- Removed POV tag — I don't see any reason for it at present.
- Removed stub tag — it's more than a stub now.
- Cited and quoted from IBD's Backgrounder page.
- Reorganized the text to accommodate that quote.
- Requested cite re IBD tying in to William O'Neils book.
- Added a new section on the editorials, columns and cartoons.
- Added an EL to http://www.ibdeditorials.com/.
The new "Editorials" section is fairly rough; please improve it. I simply said the editorial stance is "conservative to libertarian", whereas this older version of the article gave IBD's views on several topics.
Cheers, CWC 15:03, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
- I guess IBD editorialists read the blogs and vice versa: Instapundit recently linked[1] to an editorial[2] praising Michael Yon. CWC, 09:05, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
