From Powerline:
A huge media scandal came to light today in an interview that New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet gave to his own media reporter, Ben Smith. Smith asked Baquet about an after-the-fact edit the paper did on its story on Tara Reade’s claims of sexual assault by Joe Biden. The editors deleted part of a sentence that referred to prior complaints by women about Biden:
I want to ask about some edits that were made after publication, the deletion of the second half of the sentence: “The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden, beyond the hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.” Why did you do that?
Even though a lot of us, including me, had looked at it before the story went into the paper, I think that the campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward and made it look like there were other instances in which he had been accused of sexual misconduct. And that’s not what the sentence was intended to say.
And why not explain that?
We didn’t think it was a factual mistake. I thought it was an awkward phrasing issue that could be read different ways and that it wasn’t something factual we were correcting. So I didn’t think that was necessary.
Emphasis added. The New York Times altered its story on what could a significant campaign issue–an accusation of sexual assault against Joe Biden–based on a complaint by Biden’s campaign. And the paper’s head news guy sees nothing wrong with this.
Go here to read the rest. In the current contest for President, almost all the mainstream media will be taking their marching orders from the Biden campaign, Thus far has the Fourth Estate prostituted itself.
Back in 2016, a Politico reporter named Glenn Thrush was exposed in the Wikileaks scandal when emails he had exchanged with Podesta at the Hillary campaign came out. Turned out Thrush had been forwarding his stories to the Clinton campaign for editing and approval before sending them on to Politico for publication. In one email Thrush even begged the campaign office to keep the arrangement secret an referred to himself as a hack.
When the emails were leaked, Thrush should have been fired and shunned by his peers. Instead, incredibly, Politico kept him on and defended his actions.
After the election, when our media was being asked how they could have gotten so much wrong about the results, the New York Times released an open letter from the owners and editorial board, publicly rededicating the paper to the very highest standards of journalism.
About two weeks after that, the NYT announced they’d hired a new White House Correspondent to cover the incoming Trump administration. His name? Glenn Thrush.
As we see, shilling for the DNC is Standard Operating Procedure at the New York Times, and for so-called journalists willing to prostitute themselves doing it, it’s a CV-enhancement.
The Times has no interest in rediscovering journalistic integrity and sadly, our media at large has no interest in calling the Times out on this. To paraphrase the blogger Iowahawk, they’ll cover this story alright. With a pillow. Until it’s dead.
These people haven’t an ounce of integrity. They sell their product to committed Democrats, who haven’t an ounce of integrity in regard to public affairs.
Who still reads the New York Times? If you do, why? It needs to go the way of Pravda.
You should see the sewer that is our Facebook wall. We don’t know anyone in public office, bar one Republican congressional aide. These are just committed Democratic voters among our friends and relations.
Many years ago I knew a pleasant (and rather awkward) man employed as a math professor. He’d done some contracting work at Los Alamos or some such place as a graduate student and he happened to mention casually that it’s a good thing the Energy Department manufactures the nuclear weapons because had the military had that responsibility they’d have taken them and launched a first strike. Now, as far as I’m aware, once they roll off the production line, it’s the Air Force, the Navy, and the Army who have custody of the weapons. The codes to launch them are kept by a crew of aides who follow the president around in shifts, and they’re all servicemen. It wasn’t that what hit me first, though. My first thought was that I’m looking at a sweet-natured man born in 1962 whose understanding of the military seems to have been derived from watching Dr. Strangelove. He’s a long-married mainline protestant with three children, one of whom just got married. AFAIK, he’s had no involvement in the political sectarianism to be found at his institution, which has grown worse over the 23 years he’s been employed there.
For ill-wisdom, you could do much worse than that man. The sheer miasma of hostility in which these people seem to marinate stupefies me. The Democratic Party seems to have turned into a collecting pool of people who are damaged in some way. Of course, we have Republican friends. They post inspirational messages and pictures of their grand-children.
To put an American spin on an old Soviet Joke,
There’s nothing timely in the Post and there’s nothing worth posting in the Times.
At this point, I’d trust Pravda over the NYT.
Nothing new. But Biden won’t be able to use womanizing against Trump.