The presidential election is in one year. We cover it for The Wall Street Journal. Ask us anything.

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1. Will you start reporting accurately on what is at stake if Trump wins?

2. To what extent does being owned by News Corp. influence your coverage?

3. What is being done to keep journalists safe from threats of violence for what they are reporting?

4. Is the WSJ so ideological that it will support Trump despite his clear unsuitability for running the office?

5. Will your coverage highlight how the future of democracy is at risk if Trump is given another term in office?

6. Will the forced horse race perspective be successful at distracting me from the climate and global oligopoly situations?

7. Is your commitment to a false equivalence in “fair” reporting going to contribute heavily to the further degradation of the republic? Or will it just be a moderate contribution?

8. Are there ways in which the WSJ plans to question and cover Trump and his campaign that differ from 2016 and 2020? If so, how?

9. How do you expect the current Trump criminal trials to affect the election?

10. The second paragraph in your intro makes this election sound like it’s just two run-of-the-mill politicians going up against one another. Why do you and other media outlets (not that you can answer for them) INSIST on playing down the extreme risk the 45th president/rapist/insurrectionist/fraud poses for not only the existence of the United States of America, but for the world in general? Forgive my hyperbole, but I have to combat your constant ambivalence. Thank you!

11. Compared to the last election, are there any states that are now more of a battleground than before? Where will we see the candidates focus the majority of their time?

12. Why didn’t it seem relevant to you to mention Trump’s current legal problems?

13. Will you accurately report that one the candidates is a convicted rapist, under 4 criminal indictments, who attempted a multi-faceted coup to permanently end the peaceful transition of power and American democracy despite knowing full well that he’d lost the election?

14. Frankly, while I am curious how you’ll answer some of the inquiries about your companies behavior given previous statements by those who quit due to the Murdoch takeover, I am somewhat interested in the topic in general, so –

    * Do you think there will be a recession before the election?
    * What do you believe is the most likely outcome (vis a vis the election) as far as the current slate of legal cases? Will any have resulted in a conviction before then?
    * Do you think that there’s a serious chance international affairs actually have an impact on the election? If so, where?
    * What do you expect is going to impact the election that isn’t getting attention now?

15. Your opinion page is quite right wing and often promotes alleged false hoods. How do you reconcile that with your normal reporting? Are you willing to call them out objectively on their right wing leanings?

16. Will you stop reporting with headlines ‘what liberals do/think’ unless it’s actually a liberal authors submission. Adding to that what plans do the conservatives have forthcoming. I’m interested in reading that . . .

17. Why are the media complicit in not challenging the return of fascism at every turn?

18. Who has the support of the editorial page?

19. @Catherine, your bio says you focus on “gender” in your reporting ; are there any comments or actions by Trump that make you want to write more extensively about Trump and Gender issues ? I couldn’t find anything in your articles history.

20. * Why does the media (WSJ included) continuously treat the risk that Trump poses with kid gloves?
    * Why does it feel like journalism has devolved from uncovering the hidden truths, to reporting unequivocal, party talking points with the same sense of authenticity? For example, the insurrection attempt versus the weak-at-best accusations pertaining to Hunter Biden, who doesn’t even hold a government position.
    * What part does the media feel they’ve played in the lead-up to this horrific political landscape we’ve found ourselves in?
    * If you don’t make it clear that you oppose any and all attempts to subvert democracy, why should anyone trust you?

21. [The WSJ has a track record of biased reporting on climate](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0963662515595348).

    In an era of ever-increasing temperatures, what steps will the WSJ take to accurately cover climate science?

22. How do you reconcile the need to be objective while working for Rupert Murdoch?

23. How much do you plan on reporting on RFK Jr, Cornel Well, and whoever No Labels backs?

24. How badly is Biden going to lose?

25. What is the best way for me to mitigate the amount of brain cancer I receive from the media’s reporting of this upcoming election

26. Why does the media, WSJ included, insist on covering Trump’s candidacy as if it’s normal and not an authoritarian power grab?

27. Will your organization acknowledge the sound political reality that Trump’s rhetoric and behaviors perfectly fit the guise of historical fascists, with the key differences only really being the modern media that allows his views to spread?

    [https://www.wisdc.org/news/trump-and-fascism](https://www.wisdc.org/news/trump-and-fascism)

    Can we acknowledge that teachings against these views were standard in the US in the 1940s, and that the Federal government even used to fund films which spoke against the very kind of rhetoric Trump popularized?
    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4)

    Can we have an honest conversation about how dangerous this situation is? How it has led people like myself, who were raised by conservatives, to wholly reject the party, for sound and steady reasons? That true patriotism should, as a whole, be rejecting this movement on principal alone, regardless of some hypothetical shallow economic theory the GOP tries to promote?

    When will the media finally wake up and report on the common sense nature of the problem we face, and not merely address it as a normal, competitive “typical” election? We watched a coup attempt on live television, just 2.5 years ago.

28. Why does your publication insist on treating the Republicans like actual productive candidates, and this as being a traditional discussion of ideas and election? One side is not only headed by a malicious fraud and demagogue inciting violence, but is also filled with open Christian Nationalists and those who treat entire categories of people as nonentities. How are you able to face yourself while reporting for a publication that leans heavily toward supporting that side?

29. How do you sleep at night, knowing that you’ve actively participated in killing Democracy and dooming my children to living in a fascist autocracy?