
Screenshot of the actual sled in Orson Welles'Citizen Kane.
The Wall Street Journal’s decade-long decline as a trustworthy source of news about politics can't have been a surprise to anyone who knows that it’s been owned since 2007 by Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump’s closest and most powerful friend in news media. (I predicted the Journal’s decline in 2006 in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” rebutting a fawning profile of Murdoch as he was winning ownership of the paper.)