Morning Links | 16 Apr 20

IS IT ANY WONDER THE PUBLIC DOESN’T TRUST THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA? ‘New York Times’ Allowed Biden Team to Edit Story on Sexual Assault Allegation

“Executive Editor Dean Baquet gave a curious defense of the edits.
Washington Examiner:

“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,” he explained. “And that’s not what the sentence was intended to say.”

He added, “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 [to explain].”

“Is he kidding? Many women have complained about Biden’s roaming hands and while it may not be ‘sexual assault’ it’s certainly ‘sexual harassment.’ Some men have been fired for less.”