Current Events > Nytimes : Why won't TV news book Tara Reade?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/business/media/tara-reade-joe-biden-media.html

There were good reasons to be skeptical of her 20-year-old allegations: Shed changed her story and said some weird stuff, and even denied the whole thing under oath.
And while the candidate had his flaws, hed never been accused of sexual assault.
So not everybody believed Juanita Broaddricks claim that Bill Clinton raped her.

You cannot blame them, Ms. Broaddrick told me on the phone Wednesday. Here I had lied in the Paula Jones suit, and that naturally threw very harsh criticism toward me, rightfully.
You dont have to believe Mr. Clinton assaulted Juanita Broaddrick in 1978. If youre a journalist, it doesnt really matter what you believe, as long as you report what you know. But the handling of Ms. Broaddricks story was one of the most damaging media mistakes of the Clinton years. And the treatment of Mr. Clintons accusers by the Democratic Party and the media alike is one of the original sins that led to todays divided, partisan news environment.

The mainstream American media in 1999, for reasons that are hard to explain or excuse today, got cold feet on a credible allegation of rape against the president. And after NBC News sat for weeks on an exclusive interview, Ms. Broaddrick went to the only people who would listen to her, Mr. Clintons partisan enemies at The Wall Street Journals editorial page. That move helped turn her straightforward allegation into a weaponized political story. And while Americans watching at home could make up their own minds about Ms. Broaddricks credibility, they were left with new reasons to shake their heads at the media.

The same thing is about to happen again. A former Senate aide for Joseph R. Biden Jr., Tara Reade, has accused the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexually assaulting her in 1993. Reporters have found other accounts that indicate that she has been telling her version of events for a long time. There are, as with Ms. Broaddrick, reasons to doubt her story; there arent good reasons not to hear her out. As The Timess executive editor, Dean Baquet, told me in an interview two week ago, Ms. Reade has standing.

And yet, Ms. Reade told me Wednesday that the only offers shes had to appear on television have come from Fox News, including a call from the prime time host Sean Hannity. She has so far turned them down.
Ive been trying to just kind of wait to get someone in the middle, she said in a phone interview. I dont want to be pigeonholed as a progressive, I dont want to be pigeonholed as a Trump supporter.
CNN and MSNBC, whose DNA even in a pandemic is politics, have covered her on their websites but havent put her on camera.

Theyre not offering to put me on TV theyre just doing stories, Ms. Reade told me. No anchors, no nothing like that. Shed most like to tell her story to a network television anchor she admires CBSs Gayle King is one, she said but they havent called.

Theres still no clear explanation, however, for why Ms. Reade hasnt been on mainstream TV. Representatives for CNN and MSNBC declined to explain why they havent booked a woman who is, whether you believe her or not, one of the few newsmakers right now who could cut through the pandemic.

Their posture is all the more strange because, at this point, its essentially symbolic. In 1999, you could argue that NBCs decision to hold back Lisa Myerss interview with Ms. Broaddrick had real political consequences: Taped in January, as the Senate took up impeachment charges against Mr. Clinton, it did not air until after the Senate voted not to convict the president in February. (Curiously, the only version online now is on the website of a conservative group.) Back then, the only way Americans were going to hear her voice was on television.

Democrats showing that women's rights movement they were latching on against the Republicans, Trump, and Kavanaugh in the last few years was performative and really just a ploy against the other team.

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refmon posted...

Democrats showing that women's rights movement they were latching on against the Republicans, Trump, and Kavanaugh in the last few years was performative and really just a ploy against the other team.

Nah I just think they know Biden is a dud and needs all the help he can get to be forced through.
Quite a shame really.

refmon posted...

Democrats showing that women's rights movement they were latching on against the Republicans, Trump, and Kavanaugh in the last few years was performative and really just a ploy against the other team.

Yep. It was never about women. More women and minority groups need to wake up and realize the Dems just use them, then chunk em to the curb once they have the vote

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I don't care if he did it or not, I'll still have no problem voting for him over Trump.

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Amazing how certain people are screaming at half the country to vote for a rapist or else the other rapist will win

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Garioshi posted...

Amazing how certain people are screaming at half the country to vote for a rapist or else the other rapist will win

What a ridiculously simplistic statement

One of the accused rapists will keep putting in ultra conservative reactionary judges for four more years

The other will not

But sure literally ignore other issues and boil it down to just that, because it's helpful

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/29/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-tara-reade-column/3046962001/

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@Garioshi posted...

Amazing how certain people are screaming at half the country to vote for a rapist or else the other rapist will win

Who did Bernie rape?

I imagine that most recent Trump nutjob made it a bit harder for women to book interviews with major networks when she forced Anderson Cooper to cut to commercial to stop her from talking about how she thought rape was sexy.

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@monkmith posted...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/29/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-tara-reade-column/3046962001/

There were good reasons to be skeptical of her 20-year-old allegations: Shed changed her story and said some weird stuff, and even denied the whole thing under oath.
And while the candidate had his flaws, hed never been accused of sexual assault.
So not everybody believed Juanita Broaddricks claim that Bill Clinton raped her.

You cannot blame them, Ms. Broaddrick told me on the phone Wednesday. Here I had lied in the Paula Jones suit, and that naturally threw very harsh criticism toward me, rightfully.
You dont have to believe Mr. Clinton assaulted Juanita Broaddrick in 1978. If youre a journalist, it doesnt really matter what you believe, as long as you report what you know. But the handling of Ms. Broaddricks story was one of the most damaging media mistakes of the Clinton years. And the treatment of Mr. Clintons accusers by the Democratic Party and the media alike is one of the original sins that led to todays divided, partisan news environment.

The mainstream American media in 1999, for reasons that are hard to explain or excuse today, got cold feet on a credible allegation of rape against the president. And after NBC News sat for weeks on an exclusive interview, Ms. Broaddrick went to the only people who would listen to her, Mr. Clintons partisan enemies at The Wall Street Journals editorial page. That move helped turn her straightforward allegation into a weaponized political story. And while Americans watching at home could make up their own minds about Ms. Broaddricks credibility, they were left with new reasons to shake their heads at the media.

The news thought it w

And here is article on Bill Clinton rape allegation.

https://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10722580/bill-clinton-juanita-broaddrick

Basically he lucky this was pre-metoo

Or was he? Cause Biden might prove Clinton would have got away with it anyways.

They can't have this get out.

It seems pretty damning to Biden.