To be a reporter for the Wall Street Journal you have to be able to handle numbers. While the WSJ, on a few occasions, has misinterpreted numbers, the reporters are willing to present data in numeric form and are confident it won't scare away readers. Not the case with other journalists.
So what? It is my contention, that self honesty goes along with personal comfort with numbers. I think that comfort with numbers by WSJ reporters is the reason for the high quality, honesty and balanced reporting of the WSJ which is so superior to the rest of the press.
There are honest people who are not good with numbers and there are frauds who are good with numbers. But looking at the three overlapping circles, honest people, people who are good with numbers and crooks, about 99% of the people who are in the good with numbers circle are in the honest circle and less than 3% of the people in the crooks circle are in the good with numbers circle.
(Blue is good with numbers, green is honest, red are crooks: Blue has 99% overlap with green, some green is not blue, red has no overlap with green but 3% overlap with blue.)