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biden

CNN’s Brian Stelter has largely ignored Tara Reade's bombshell
allegation
that the Democrats' presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, Joe
Biden,
sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, which in turn has
drawn the
notice of some media watchers saying a brief mention in his
newsletter and
single tweet do not compare well to his extensive coverage of
Christine
Blasey Ford, the woman who accused future Supreme Court Justice
Brett
Kavanaugh of sexual assault in 2018.

"At this point, it's hard to pretend like Stelter is a
journalist. The
same guy who put Michael Avenatti on air... who treated every
allegation
against Justice Kavanaugh as the gospel truth and who is happy
to peddle
tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories about President Trump, can't
find his way
to even mention serious and contemporaneously corroborated
claims of
sexual assault against the presumptive Democratic nominee for
president,"
conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News. Avenatti, an
attorney,
represented adult-film star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits
against Trump;
he later was convicted in a separate case linked to extortion
attempts.

Stelter had been stone-silent for nearly a month since Reade
first came
forward with claims against Biden. The story expanded from a
political
narrative to a potential media scandal this past Friday when
decades-old
footage from Stelter's own network was unearthed, appearing to
show
Reade’s late mother alluding to her daughter's claims.

CNN FINALLY COVERS LARRY KING CLIP WHICH BIDEN ACCUER’S MOTHER
PURPORTEDLY
ALLUDES TO DAUGHTER’S SEXUAL ASSAULT

Reade, a former staffer for then-Sen. Biden, confirmed to Fox
News that
the woman heard in the "Larry King Live" clip was her mother,
Jeanette
Altimus, who died in 2016.

Still, despite the fact the clip was from CNN itself, Stelter
buried the
story in his Saturday night newsletter labeled, "In other news."
He then
failed to cover it during his Sunday morning media show,
"Reliable
Sources."

Why CNN didn't dig up its own clip containing the words of the
accuser's
late mother, especially considering how much time the network
focused on
assault accusations against Kavanaugh, then became a media story
in and of
itself.

CNN finally started covering Reade's assault claim against Biden
after a
month-long on-air drought on Saturday afternoon amid an
onslaught of
criticism. But Stelter, the network’s in-house media watcher,
didn't
partake.

CLIP SURFACES OF BIDEN ACCUSER TARA READE'S MOTHER PHONING INTO
'LARRY
KING LIVE' IN 1993 ALLUDING TO CLAIM

As a result, media watchdogs anticipated Stelter's Sunday show,
which has
claimed to examine the media world on a weekly basis, to see if
he would
finally address the situation surrounding Reade on air.


Jon Levine
?
@LevineJonathan
Larry King may have had the biggest scoop of his CNN career this
evening
... And it’s an open question whether his former employer will
say a word
about it

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Those observers were left disappointed, as Stelter never
mentioned the
scandal.

"CNN has a public perception problem, reflected in its low
ratings. Taking
a serious news approach to the Tara Reade case is an opportunity
for CNN
to help restore reporting credibility. Unfortunately, it appears
CNN will
miss this opportunity," Cornell Law School professor and media
critic
William A. Jacobson told Fox News.

Stelter, who has been extremely active on Twitter, had not even
mentioned
Reade's name in a tweet or acknowledged her claims as of Sunday
night --
well over 48 hours after the 1993 CNN tape was uncovered and
roughly a
month since Reade's claims first became public.

On Monday, the story continued to unfold and Stelter finally
broke his
Twitter silence, sort of.

Business Insider's Rich McHugh tweeted a story that Reade’s
former
neighbor came forward to corroborate her sexual assault claims
against
Biden.

BIDEN SKATES THROUGH TV INTERVIEWS AS ANCHORS AVOID QUESTIONS
ABOUT TARA
READE'S ASSAULT CLAIM

Stelter took to Twitter to highlight that the neighbor "is the
first
person to independently corroborate, in detail and on the
record, that
Reade had told others about her assault allegations
contemporaneously,"
quoting from McHugh's report.


Brian Stelter
?
@brianstelter
Lynda LaCasse "is the first person to independently corroborate,
in detail
and on the record, that Reade had told others about her assault
allegations contemporaneously:" https://twitter.com/richmchugh/status/1254811933531934721 …

Rich McHugh
?
@RichMcHugh
NEW: A former neighbor of Joe Biden's accuser Tara Reade has
come forward,
on the record, to corroborate her sexual assault account, saying
Reade
discussed the allegations in detail in the mid-1990s. https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-
bidens-
accuser-2020-
4?utmSource=twitter&utmContent=referral&utmTerm=topbar&referrer=
twitter …

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"This isn't the behavior of a journalist, it's the behavior of a
shameless
partisan hack," Barron said.

Plenty of Stelter's followers also took notice:


CNN..Journalismisdead
@nka1105
Replying to @brianstelter
Wow 1 month later Brian finally posts. Remember Blasse Ford,
there was no
corroboration but u came out right away on that. Why the delay?

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Brian Stelter's Eyeliner
@YaOkTonsBro
Replying to @brianstelter
Wow its going to be tough to keep ignoring this one Bri Bri

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BillHobson
@BillHobson1
Replying to @brianstelter
If CNN is trying to make up for largely ignoring this story
despite some
700 articles on Kavanaugh, you've got a long way to go.

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Kevin Cole
@kevincole1020
Replying to @brianstelter
24/7 coverage of Brett Kavanaugh with no corroborating
witnesses. Way to
go big B

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George From Georgia
@Kieran25102510
Replying to @brianstelter
So more collaboration than Kavanaughs accusation. I’ll wait for
the wall
to wall stories from CNN and the NYT.

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Keyzer Soze
@Come_On_Ground
If people like Stelter are going to start addressing the Biden
accusations
you can bet the Democrats already have a new candidate lined up.
he must
have gotten the green light. https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1254814799877353474 …

Brian Stelter
?
@brianstelter
Lynda LaCasse "is the first person to independently corroborate,
in detail
and on the record, that Reade had told others about her assault
allegations contemporaneously:" https://twitter.com/richmchugh/status/1254811933531934721 …

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Brian Stelter's Eyeliner
@YaOkTonsBro
Replying to @AaronBlake @MaxBoot
Will you cover his sexual assault allegations? I know he is Joe
Biden (D)
but should he be held to same standard as Brett Kavanaugh?

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"It's great to see CNN finally start to acknowledge the Biden
sexual
assault scandal, but it's a pathetic attempt. CNN nearly did a
better job
covering the story in 1993 than they are now. Compare that to
the round-
the-clock coverage the network gave the bogus allegations
against Justice
Brett Kavanaugh," Media Research Center vice president Dan
Gainor told Fox
News.

"Even then, CNN is still CNN," Gainor added. "Media scold Brian
Stelter
tweeted about Reade's claims one whole time Monday. Of course,
he also
tweeted at least six times to whine about Trump press
conferences. So, he
has his priorities."

Back in 2018, Stelter was all in when Blasey Ford accused
Kavanaugh of
assault. He delivered passionate monologues about her claims and
how
difficult of a time she was having. The contrast in coverage of
Reade's
claims compared to Blasey Ford's has been striking, as Stelter
spoke about
Kavanaugh's accuser on all of his platforms.


Brian Stelter
?
@brianstelter
Try to put yourself in Christine Blasey Ford's shoes for a
minute...

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"Believing women means doing so whether it's politically
convenient or
not," feminist author Jessica Valenti tweeted.

Stelter, who founded TVNewser and covered the media industry for
The New
York Times before joining CNN, wasn’t always seen as partisan
but has
emerged as an outspoken critic of President Trump, members of his administration and other conservatives.

CNN AVOIDS ON-AIR COVERAGE OF BIDEN ACCUSER TARA READE NEARLY
ONE MONTH
AFTER MAKING ASSAULT CLAIM

NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck told Fox News, "a few
stories on
CNN.com here, a segment there, and a newsletter footnote won't
erase the
latest full-court press from the likes of Stelter" to shirk the
liberal
network's "journalistic responsibilities."

Houch added, "The moniker of 'Reliable Sources' has always been
to give
viewers the inside story on the news and how it's made.
Theoretically,
that remains. But, instead of showing viewers, Stelter has done
so through
what's been predictable silence -- aside from a mealy-mouthed
nod in the
newsletter," Houck said.

Stelter, however, has had a pattern of overlooking major media
stories
that didn't fit a liberal agenda. Last year, he essentially
ignored a hot-
mic recording that featured an ABC News reporter claiming her
network
could have exposed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein long before his
crimes came
to light. The story had all the elements that a media reporter
typically
would cover, but critics assumed Stelter didn't want to give
attention to
Project Veritas, the controversial group that obtained the video
because
it previously had targeted CNN.

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Stelter wasn't the only CNN host who largely skipped Reade's
allegations;
Jake Tapper interviewed former Georgia gubernatorial candidate
Stacey
Abrams about her ambitions to be selected as Biden's running
mate on his
"State of the Union" on Sunday morning, but he failed to mention
the
allegations against her potential running mate.

Stelter had not mentioned anything related to Reade's claims on
air as of
Monday afternoon. CNN did not respond to Fox News' requests for
comment.

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