In late March, Ryan Grim, of The Intercept, published a story on Tara Reade, a former staffer in Joe Biden’s Senate office. She was one of several women who had come forward to say that Biden, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, had, in past encounters, touched them inappropriately. Grim reported that Reade’s case had been dropped by Time’s Up, a nonprofit #MeToo advocacy group, because the group viewed Reade’s allegation against Biden as perilously political. The day after Grim’s story appeared, Reade granted an interview to Katie Halper, a progressive podcaster, and dropped a bombshell. Biden, Reade said, hadn’t just touched her inappropriately, he had sexually assaulted her: In 1993, he’d pushed her against a wall and penetrated her with his fingers. “It happened all at once,” Reade told Halper. “His hands were on me and underneath my clothes.” The Biden campaign denied that this occurred. Until this morning, Biden had not addressed Reade or her statements. For a long while, the press—otherwise preoccupied with horse race election coverage, then COVID-19—didn’t do much to advance the Reade story, making it easy for Biden to avoid the subject. For weeks, mainstream outlets met it with silence. On April 12—nineteen days after Reade spoke with Halper—the New York Times published a piece on Reade’s allegation, in which the reporters, Lisa Lerer and Sydney Ember, found no further allegations against Biden (aside from those made public last year) and did not speak to... Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'
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