One wonders if The Associated Press wrongfully suppressed running a story about Joe Biden allegedly assaulting Tara Reade months before the recent revelations.
They sat on a story. And, all these months later, the current story breaks. How much of this did The AP have, only to choose not to run it? Bless them, but should they have run it?
Pick up this story from the Daily Herald at their heraldextra-dot-com address. "The AP declined to publish details of the 2019 interviews at the time because reporters were unable to corroborate her allegations and aspects of her story contradicted other reporting," says the Daily Herald.
The Daily Herald story says one of the interviews "was deleted before Reade emerged in 2020 with one allegations against Biden, in keeping with the reporter's practice for disposing of old interviews."
How much of the story did The AP have but chose not to run? People corroborating Reade's testimony have since come forth. The AP says it didn't run the story in part because it couldn't find such witnesses. Did they try? Seems they could have just asked Reade, and she would have provided them.
Bless The AP. I do respect it. But, this time around, from all that I do have here, it does seem it should have run the story. Biden is a candidate for the highest office in the land. The accusation was not proven -- still isn't -- but it was credible enough that the public deserved to know about it.
Note: Six sentences added to blog 5/7/20
https://www.heraldextra.com/news/national/government-and-politics/reade-i-didnt-use-sexual-harassment-in-biden-complaint/article_34af97e1-36b2-5c28-8870-883656d1e642.html
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