Another once-respected American newspaper appears bent on setting its reputation aflame in an attempt to oppose President Donald Trump’s agenda any way it can. Standing out in the case of The Wall Street Journal is the publication’s seamless transition from stuffy numbers-crunching to leftist-style emotional blog blather.
As with its flailing peers, such as The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, The WSJ routinely sees its impartiality and professionalism questioned when reporting on Trump. The latest egregious example came on Feb. 14. “Exclusive: [Vice President JD] Vance pledged to hit Russia with sanctions and potentially military action if [President Vladimir] Putin won’t agree to a peace deal that guarantees Ukraine's independence,” the paper exclaimed in social media posts promoting its interview with Trump’s second in command.
Baking the News
It was a neoconservative fantasy determined to deny reality. The WSJ framed the interview around daydreams of the US backing Ukraine’s admittance to NATO – something Trump does not support – and the possibility of American soldiers being deployed to Ukraine. When Vance innocently stated that “everything is on the table” for Trump when he enters a negotiation, the paper seized on that elastic quote to buttress its belligerent pro-Ukraine tone.
This goes beyond bad journalism ethics. Attempting to bully an administration with clearly defined foreign policy beliefs into acquiescing to a newspaper’s agenda is just plain silly.
Earlier in February, a WSJ reporter doxxed Marko Elez, a 25-year-old member of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, revealing him to be the operator of an anonymous social media account spiked with politically incorrect posts.
The “journalist,” Katherine Long, came to the paper from Business Insider. Before that, she had worked at Vox, a leftist news site more akin to HuffPost's emotive blogging than professional reporting. Interestingly, The Wall Street Journal has a striking number of Vox alums in key positions on its news staff.
While at Business Insider, Long apparently practiced the same style of personal “gotcha” journalism that The WSJ now embraces. A populist-right X poster using the moniker Raw Egg Nationalist, who has 274,000 followers, tells a remarkable tale of his experience with Long last summer.
“Long sent an email to one of my local farm shops, asking the owner to give her my personal details,” Raw Egg Nationalist states in a Feb. 7 post. He quoted the email Long sent to the farm. “Do you or any of your staff know of a man who regularly buys large quantities of eggs and milk?” she asked. “If so, I would be very grateful if you could pass along his name. I am happy to keep our conversation confidential, i.e. I would never tell anyone how I had learned his name.”
A few months later, Long was hired by The Wall Street Journal.
Leftist Embeds at The Wall Street Journal
Did you know WSJ has an official “climate finance reporter”? His name is Amrith Ramkumar, and he “covers how investors are paying for the transition to clean energy,” his newspaper bio states.
Let’s get to that Vox pipeline.
Alexander Ward “is a national security reporter covering the White House and State Department,” his WSJ bio declares. Before being hired, Ward worked for Swamp-connected Politico and Vox. He’s a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations and a former employee of arch-globalist DC think tank the Atlantic Council, and he authored a 2024 book titled The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump. It focused on key Biden foreign policy officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the man he covered as part of his WSJ beat.
So we have a Council on Foreign Relations member reporting on the foreign policy doings of another CFR member, Blinken, and it’s all being done under The Wall Street Journal banner.
Michelle Hackman is a reporter in the paper’s Washington bureau, “where she covers US immigration policy.” Hackman was hired in June 2016. What made her a must-get?
Perhaps it was an article she co-wrote for Vox three months earlier on how conservative college students were embarrassed by the rise of Trump. “The young conservatives say they already faced an uphill battle in trying to convince a mostly liberal campus that their views are not motivated by racism or homophobia,” the article states. “Trump’s rise has made this problem much more difficult to overcome.”
Hackman is writing these same types of articles for The Wall Street Journal today. “Trump Has Made America More Hostile to Immigrants. He Isn’t Done Yet” is the headline of a Feb. 3 piece.
Then there is Isabella Simonetti, “a reporter covering the business of television and streaming.” In 2020, while interning at Vox, the University of Pennsylvania student scolded whites for taking so long to get on the Black Lives Matter train. “And yet systemic racism has been ingrained in the fabric of America since its founding, police violence against Black Americans dates back to when slavery was legal, and the Black Lives Matter movement has existed since 2013. Why did they choose to get involved now?” she asked.
Dominique Mosbergen is a “medical science reporter” at The WSJ’s Health and Science bureau. She has been active of late, filing one article after another portraying Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a dire health care threat.
Mosbergen isn’t another Vox hire. She came straight from HuffPost, where she worked for “a decade,” her WSJ bio states. While there, she regularly wrote about climate change in the hysterical tones one would expect from that outlet. “Climate Change Is Melting 'The Roof Of The World,'” the headline of her Dec. 2016 article pronounces. “We Need A President Who Will Continue Obama’s Climate Legacy – Not Destroy It,” her Oct. 2016 piece is titled.
This is how one becomes a medical science reporter for The Wall Street Journal. And this is how fake news operates.
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