“Bad news about Biden”

From Salon, Lucian K. Truscott IV on The New York Times and its coverage of Joe Biden and Donald Trump:

The New York Times has apparently devoted half a floor in its Eighth Avenue headquarters to a search for bad news about Biden, and then they reserve a space nearly every day above the fold on the front page for whatever grain of grim shit the Biden hunters have managed to come up with. They’re probably working on a story on how Biden is losing the pro-choice vote as we speak, while pointing out the wild success of Trump’s “move to the middle” on abortion with “centrist” voters.

If you’re getting off the subway anywhere near Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street, hold your nose. There’s something fishy at the New York Times.

I found this (hyperbolic) discussion refreshing. Between the Times coverage of Biden (did you know that he’s eighty-one?) and its failure (after almost four weeks) to correct an obvious error of fact in its obituary for Joyce Randolph, I’m thinking about canceling my subscription. That’s not hyperbole.