You have to give CNN’s Brian Stelter this much: Nobody is as reliably wrong as he is.
That counts for something, right?
On April 13, the self-appointed public relations agent for the news industry gave it a metaphorical pat on the back, crediting investigative journalists with forcing disgraced Representative Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) to scuttle his gubernatorial campaign and resign from the House of Representatives after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment and assault.
“Eric Swalwell ending his bid for California governor is, among other things, a testament to the power of investigative reporting,” Stelter boasted.
It is not. No one comes away from this story looking good, least of all members of the press.
The allegations against Swalwell are as serious as they get. The alleged predation, which Swalwell denies, spans more than a decade, stretching back to at least his first term in Congress in 2012. Worst of all, journalists and insiders in Washington, D.C., and California now say they first heard rumors about the congressman’s secret life years earlier.
Gee, fellas. A decade-plus is a long time to not do anything with an allegation stretching from the nation’s capital to the Golden State.
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