Shame on the Media for Turning Biden's Old Classified Docs into a Snipe Hunt [View all]

Shame on the Media for Turning Biden's Old Classified Docs into a Snipe Hunt
False equivalence and what-aboutism—has no one learned anything from the last decade?

By Charles P. Pierce

We're all going to have to come to grips with the fact that CNN is going to go all-in on this obvious snipe hunt over the classified documents that lawyers for the president gave back to the National Archives as soon as they found them. According to NBC, there was a second batch of documents. Two! two! two snipes in one!

This so energized the various gun-bearers and bloodhounds at CNN that one of them, Stephen Collison, went storming off into the bogs on his own. This shebeen doesn't often call out individual reporters by name; the job is hard enough without an ever-expanding peanut gallery. And Collison's egregious effort Thursday morning was only the latest indication that CNN, under its new management, thinks the what-aboutism of the Biden documents is going to be its train to glory. But this lede right here? This is everything that's been wrong about elite political journalism ever since everyone went down to Arkansas in the early 1990s to troll for fish stories.