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‘A Pernicious, Insidious, Awful Practice’: How The Biden Administration Is Editing Our News

Ben Johnson
‘A Pernicious, Insidious, Awful Practice’: How The Biden Administration Is Editing Our News
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President Joe Biden and his appointees use “a pernicious, insidious, awful practice” to “control” media coverage of his administration, according to Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, as the Biden administration regularly demands the right to revise, rewrite, or remove any quotation made by its officials before it appears in a news story.

Numerous journalists confirmed the practice and admitted they often agreed to the Biden team’s terms, even while covering the 2020 presidential campaign.

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