Grey Lady Down!

This is the equivalent of putting a bag of dog poop on the New York Times’ doorstep and setting it on fire. https://t.co/RhGbHH9pU2

— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) April 26, 2024

NYT issues an unprecedented statement slamming Biden for "actively and effectively avoid[ing] questions from independent journalists during his term" and claiming it's their "independence" that Biden dislikes, when it's actually that they're dying to trip him up. https://t.co/0Hw4Ybkbtb

— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) April 25, 2024

Incidentally, when the NYT got a chance to interview Trump, they went belly up. https://t.co/fW5kx5868d pic.twitter.com/LbrhfYMtqf

— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) April 25, 2024

Gee, what’s this all about?

1. The media turned Robert Hur's amateur assessment of Biden's memory into a political crisis.

Collectively, the @washingtonpost, @nytimes, and @WSJ have run 66 articles quoting Hur: a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory"

But when the transcript of the Biden interview… pic.twitter.com/cExzjuKeYz

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 14, 2024

3. Only the @nytimes included this "photographic recall" anecdote in its own coverage of the transcript. It was included in the last sentence of a 2,500-word article that appeared on page A13 of the paper.https://t.co/bP9htADcUt

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 14, 2024

5. The "photographic understanding and… recall" comment was not mentioned at all in the Wall Street Journal.https://t.co/bP9htADcUt

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 14, 2024

7. The transcript shows the Biden interview is not compelling evidence that Biden has memory issues.

But that is a story the nation's top outlets are not eager to tell

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— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 14, 2024

"There were many articles after Hur’s report urging Biden to step down. The GOP candidate is a criminal defendant in multiple cases & is sleeping through his trial. Yet there are no Hail Mary columns fantasizing about how Nikki Haley should replace him." https://t.co/EreIkXaPCN

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 25, 2024

Is AG going to announce his own impeachment proceedings over this? It’s almost cruel how Joe’s doing that kid. https://t.co/oOlvzqQYZr

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 26, 2024

Seriously, NYT, you’re not going to win this one:

AG is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever met in my life. https://t.co/ocXGd5pdAM

— Armando (@ArmandoNDK) April 26, 2024

Biden wants to be re-elected without doing the hard work of giving interviews. But no one deserves an important job that they didn't have to work for.

by A. G. Sulzberger

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) April 26, 2024