Sex Scandals

Tucked into the final minutes of Sunday’s Meet the Press, NBC political director Chuck Todd led a panel discussion, featuring Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter and NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Kasie Hunt, where they groaned about calls to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for an allegation of rape. One even claimed there was no “huge appetite” for it. Meanwhile, the call…

Recently appointed New York Times media columnist Ben Smith has hit the ground running. Unlike his predecessor Jim Rutenberg, Smith manages to find alternatives to attacking Fox News again and again. On Friday he dove in to the lack of press time for Tara Reader, who has accused probable Democratic nominee Joe Biden of sexual assault: “Why Won’t Television News Put the Accuser on the Air?” It's…

Susan Page of USA Today joined The 11th Hour host Brian Williams on MSNBC Friday night to discuss the allegations of sexual harassment and assault surrounding Joe Biden and argued that it is unfair that Biden is hurt more by such allegations than President Trump because, unlike Trump, Biden is running as a nice guy who cares, a "decent human being."

On her MSNBC show this afternoon, Wallace said, as someone who was once "a part of the Republican party," that when it comes to Tara Reade, "the right" is not being "intellectually honest," and is instead "running a smear campaign against Joe Biden." In contrast, those honest old Democrats are simply seeking "consistency" about #MeToo. Wallace ended her anti-conservative diatribe by warning, "…

Hours after Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski grilled presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden over sexual assault allegations against him, political correspondent Mike Memoli appeared on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports to suggest that the coronavirus pandemic was the reason that much of the media were slow to cover the scandal.

Con respecto a cobertura de las acusaciones serias de agresión sexual contra el exvicepresidente Joe Biden levantadas por su exempleada Tara Reade, los medios hispanoparlantes en Estados Unidos han brillado por su ausencia. El estudio más reciente de MRC Latino revela, de manera predecible, que este no siempre fue el caso.

On Friday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe conducted the first exclusive interview with presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden about the sexual assault allegations leveled against him by former Senate staffer Tara Reade. The exchange became quite contentious as co-host Mika Brzezinski repeatedly called out Biden’s hypocrisy and demanded that more records from his Senate career be released to thoroughly…

When it comes to coverage of the serious allegations levied against former Vice President Joe Biden by former staffer Tara Reade, the nation’s Spanish-language national news media have been conspicuously absent. MRC Latino’s most recent study shows that, predictably, this wasn’t always the case.  

Finally, the evening newscasts of ABC and CBS broke their silence on the rape accusation against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. While their respective morning newscasts had already covered the topic, Thursday night was the first time NBC News had dared to give it airtime. The contrast was stark in how they covered the accusations of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, where their mission was…

After almost a month of avoiding serious talk about Tara Reade’s significant sexaul assault allegation against Joe Biden, the 47-year-old Charmed actress, Biden supporter, and activist who claims to have sparked the #MeToo movement, finally acknowledged Reade’s plight in an April 29 column for Hollywood outlet Deadline.  

It was one of the most predictable developments on the Democratic side of the 2020 presidential election: two-time presidential flunky Hillary Clinton endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. But that didn’t stop ABC’s World News Tonight from fangirling Tuesday and declaring it “another big milestone” for the campaign. At the same time, ABC News and CBS Evening News continued their blackout of…

Talking to Fox News host Tucker Carlson Monday night, investigative journalist Rich McHugh detailed his reporting on the latest person to corroborate former Senate staffer Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegations against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. McHugh explained that a neighbor of Reade, whom he deemed “very credible,” recalled Reade telling her about the incident with Biden in…

On Sunday evening, CBS Weekend News marked one year since Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign. Rather use the occasion to hold the presumptive Democratic nominee accountable for sexual abuse allegations leveled against him by former Senate staffer Tara Reade, the broadcast instead focused on touting Biden’s all-female short list of vice presidential picks.

On Fox News’s Special Report Tuesday evening, MediaBuzz anchor Howard Kurtz hammered the blatant media double standard when it came to covering sexual assault allegations against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. While many outlets have still refused to cover the Biden controversy, Kurtz pointed out how eager major newspapers and networks were to jump on unsubstantiated claims against…