Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson took David Carr and Bill Keller to task for a story published in the Times today about the Journal‘s Washington bureau.

Mr. Carr wrote that the Journal‘s D.C. coverage has been ”adopting a more conservative tone” and that editors have been “editing and headlining articles to reflect a chronic skepticism of the current administration” ever since Mr. Thomson took over the paper as editor. Mr. Carr used former D.C. Journal staffers and two current…