The ridiculous report by PBS is being presented as strong journalism -- it's not -- and the last word on Tara Reade -- it's not.
What is it?
It's PBS speaking to a group of people that the Joe Biden campaign steered them to.
They didn't compile their own list by speaking to HR and finding people who worked for Joe Biden. Instead, they combed through 'public records' (two PBS friends tell us that 'public records' were fluff press reports on employees that Joe Biden's staff promoted to the press when he was a senator and when he was vice president).
What's really sad is that PBS didn't try to hide that. The people praising the 'report' just didn't have the brains to notice what was in it.
From Ava and my "Media: Lies and liars all around:"
They want you to be thrilled that they spoke to 74 people who worked for Joe.
We think it's far more telling that they attempted to speak to 200
people who worked for Joe but only 74 were willing to speak to them.
But you know what we found more interesting?
Tara Reade worked for Joe Biden. Her personnel files might have the
complaint she states she filed. They may not have it. Where is it?
Joe went on MSNBC and told the world it had to be in one place but that
was a lie. He refuses to open his own records at the University of
Delaware.
Remember that?
So, help us out, how did PBS get employment records to contact 200 people?
A random survey of 200 workers, on the part of PBS, found nothing.
That's strange isn't it. No one even had a beef. How did that happen?
Don't wonder, it's right there in what PBS is calling a 'report:'
In
all, the NewsHour tried to contact nearly 200 former staffers of
Biden’s, based primarily on public records of his time in the Senate and
White House and also from interviews with current campaign advisers.
Are alarms not going off yet?
They should be.
When THE NEW YORK TIMES did their expose on Harvey Weinstein, did they
go to Harvey and ask for a list of witnesses who would back him up?
No. But that's what PBS did.
Tara Reade makes an accusation and, instead of conducting an independent
investigation, PBS went to the Biden campaign to ask for a list of
people to talk to.
Are you really surprised that people the Biden campaign referred PBS to didn't have anything but kind words for Jo-Jo?
And what are the public records the sentence refers to because when this
stood out to us today, we worked the phones and the best any PBS
friends could offer us was "public records" were published news
reports. So when Joe's office liked a worker enough to get them
publicity by engineering press, there's a record of that person and
that's who PBS contacted.
This isn't journalism.
Shame on everyone who has endorsed PBS' 'reporting' which is nothing
more than them taking dictation from the campaign of Joe Biden.
That's who they spoke to -- friends of the campaign who referred PBS to . . . friends of the campaign.
So what PBS really reported was that 74 people that Joe's campaign wanted them to speak to all sang the praises of Joe Biden.
Isn't that a shocker?
This needs to called out, not praised.
PBS should be ashamed of themselves.
And people who praised that report need to reconsider their praise.
