Curious Case of the Wanna-Go-Left Wall Street Journal: How Facts Keep Getting in the Way

The Wall Street Journal, like Fox News and broadcasting, is owned by the Rupert Murdoch family. Father Rupert founded it all with a well-defined conservative bent.

Then along came the people working for him, especially at the WSJ, and his sons, who appear to be Mamdani-esque in their politics. The left tilt began.

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On top of that, Rupert has long hated Donald Trump. After Trump left office in 2021, the WSJ did its best to paint the man in a bd light.

January 6, the newspaper basically agreed with the Demofiends, was an insurrection. Afterward, Trump faded into deserved oblivion, Rupert hoped, and his newspaper reflected his views.

Then came a would-be coup at the WSJ, when staffers basically demanded to go left on its editorial pages.

Fox News curiously didn’t do much better. It hired Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the House and a Never-Trumper, to be a member of the Board of Directors. And it immediately fired Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson. Connection?

Today’s edition of the WSJ points out how reality keeps getting in the way of its anti-Trump agenda. Early on predicting massive inflation and a recession from Trump’s tariff wars, the newspaper today ran an article with the headline, “The U.S> Economy Is Regaining Its Swagger.”

The article went on to cite stock market record closes, a rise in consumer confidence, and an absence of any great inflationary pressures as signs of a strengthening econmy.

Of course, that article was followed by others with headlines such as “After Pledging to Keep Prices Low, Amazon Hiked Them on Hundreds of Essentials,” and “Europe Prepares for a U.S. Trade Fight.”

Balance in coverage, yes; yearning to turn left, mais oui aussi.