Dec. 15, 2020 6:05 pm ET
There’s an emerging media narrative that Joe Biden is more difficult for the press to cover than Donald Trump because Mr. Biden allegedly has superior character and therefore generates fewer scandals. Accepting this spin naturally requires one to ignore the Biden family influence-peddling business. But the fear among media executives about their own businesses is real. Bashing Donald Trump has been profitable. Can you hold an audience by lauding Joe Biden?
“CNN and MSNBC Fret Over Post-Trump Future” is the headline on a New York Times story. But the paper could have just as easily been writing about itself. Timesmen John Koblin and Michael M. Grynbaum write:
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12/10/2020 08:26 AM EST
Every news week brings its share of light and heat to the U.S.-China relationship, but this last one has felt particularly suffused with the latter. A Chinese propagandist reacted to an offensive tweet from a U.S. senator by calling her a “lifetime b .” NBC reported on Chinese “super soldiers” and included an image of a Jean-Claude Van Damme action flick from the early 1990s. And Fox News host