While it doesn't address your request not to link them in the first place... For anyone looking to bypass the paywalls when they are linked: you can copy the article's title and search Google for `site:wsj.com [title]`.

Worked for me. what? Bypassing the paywwall is this simple? Does this work for other news sites with paywall?

Most news sites, yes. They want Google's crawler to crawl their full text, and Google responds poorly to sites that treat their crawler differently than real search users, so if your Referer (sic) header is Google, news sites will often give you the whole article.