Stick to reporting: Wall Street Journal editor trashes staffs Trump article in leaked emails

[TomVilmer]

12. As a journalist, commentary does not belong in normal news articles...

... even when you are challenged to describe what a guy like Trump is doing. But those examples from this article looks far away from comments, and are mere descriptions:

"... Gerard Baker, the editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal, emailed a group of reporters and editors regarding the draft of a Journal article covering Trump’s rally in Phoenix. In his midnight message, Baker asked his staff to tone down language in the story that he characterized as opinionated: “Sorry. This is commentary dressed up as news reporting,” “Could we please just stick to reporting what he said rather than packaging it in exegesis and selective criticism?”

The Times also obtained a copy of the draft reviewed by Baker. When comparing it to the final version published in the Journal, the Times found that several phrases were removed. In one instance, the Journal removed language that described the Charlottesville protests as “reshaping” Trump’s presidency. In another, the newspaper’s staff took out a description of Trump’s Phoenix speech as “an off-script return to campaign form,” in which he “pivoted away from remarks a day earlier in which he had solemnly called for unity.[i/] ...”