NYTs Editor Admits to Changing Biden Sexual Assault Story After Biden Campaign Complained
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The editor of the New York Times has admitted to changing critical aspects of a report on Joe Biden's sexual assault allegations simply because the Biden campaign complained.
According to The Washington Free Beacon:
The New York Times edited a controversial passage in an article about a sexual assault allegation against former vice president Joe Biden after his campaign complained, the paper's executive editor said Monday.
Dean Baquet, in an interview with Times media columnist Ben Smith, explained why edits were made to the following sentence, which appeared as follows in the print edition of the paper, on page A20: "The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden, beyond the hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable."
Baquet said the Times decided to delete the second half of the sentence, without explanation in the form of an editor's note, because "the [Biden] 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."
Smith asked a number of questions challenging Baquet to defend the Times‘s excessively cautious approach to reporting the sexual assault allegation against Biden—first made public by a former staffer, Tara Reade, on March 25—in light of the paper's decidedly more aggressive approach to publishing similar allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The editor said that reporting on matters like these are "very subjective" essentially stating that it is ok to report on allegation differently depending on who they are made against.
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