Where Have You Gone, Seymour Hersh?

Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This was a painful read.

Why? Because the words of Seymour Hersh kept surfacing in the back of my mind about the authors: "Jack Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios... had every reason to know something -- if not more than what the 'Journal' published -- long before the election season. As a broadcaster with a national audience, Tapper did no reporting for the public on that issue when it mattered -- when there was still time for the Democratic leadership to pressure Biden to withdraw and hold and open convention to pick a new candidate."

I've worked with many journalists in the past. I admire journalists. When it mattered most last year, so many journalists simply didn't do their jobs. Writing a best-selling post mortem is not journalism; it's exploitation of a privileged position.

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