The Times was criticized for prioritizing "sensationalism" over “truth" in its spread of a "baseless conspiracy theory" about Biden and Ukraine.
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s campaign has excoriated The New York Times for helping to spread what it described as a “baseless conspiracy theory” advanced by President Donald Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and for prioritizing sensationalism over “truth and judiciousness.”
The Trump camp has been pushing a conspiracy theory for months about Biden’s alleged corruption in his dealings with Ukraine. They claim Biden, during his tenure as vice president, withheld $1 billion in aid to Ukraine to compel the country’s firing of a top prosecutor in order to protect his son, Hunter Biden.
“In those first 19 paragraphs is a knot of details bound to be mangled by cable-news hosts and pundits in the coming months,” Wemple, the Post’s media critic, wrote in a column. Conservative author Peter Schweizer gets top billing in the New York Times today! pic.twitter.com/dqcNamHKucBiden’s campaign also took issue with an op-ed critical of the Bidens published in the Times on Wednesday by author Peter Schweizer, who was lambasted by Bedingfield as a “discredited, right-wing polemicist.”
The Times “will continue to cover Joe Biden with the same tough and fair standards we apply to every candidate in the race and we’re happy to sit down with Biden advisers anytime to discuss news coverage,” a spokesman told Darcy, adding that Schweizer’s op-ed had been published in the Opinion section of the newspaper, “where their mission is to invite intelligent discussion on a range of opinions and ideas.
The dissemination of “objectively false information to influence public opinion poisons the public discourse and chips away at our democracy,” Biden campaign spokesman TJ Ducklo said in a statement about the ad to CNN.
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