The wall street journal was actually well respected even after it bought acquired by the Murdoch family (he also owns Fox news...) in 2007.they are ridicolous. That's a supposedly serious financial newspaper not a bullshit english tabloid like "the sun" or "daily mail"! China was right on banning their reporters.
IMO it started going crazy when Obama was elected (cant have a black president..) and after Trump and especially after the trade war, Hong Kong stuff it went full crazy anti-China propaganda.
Now the only "worthy" financial newspaper is the Financial Times but they are strange too, they report positive news on China because their economy almost always has positive news! But after they were acquired by the Japanese Nikkei they have also started their anti-China narrative