A public dispute between Sen. Bernie Sanders and a well-funded liberal think tank with deep ties to the Clintons spilled into public view this week. And then someone's mom was dragged into it.
A man walks into the Center for American Progress in Washington on Feb. 21, 2018. By Eli Rosenberg Eli Rosenberg General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 16 at 10:32 PM The relationship between Bernie Sanders supporters and the Hillary Clinton camp was famously bitter during the 2016 presidential campaign, a sore point after Democrats’ bruising loss to President Trump.
But what has rankled many was the statements it included from Tanden’s 78-year-old mother, Maya, who apparently spoken freely with a Times reporter about her daughter. The statement also said that Maya Tanden thought the piece was going to be “a nice story about Neera.”“I feel very misled, and it is shameful the New York Times would use my words to hurt my daughter.”The statement was joined by a chorus of criticism from people who felt like the mother had been dragged improperly into a messy political fight.
— Neera Tanden April 16, 2019 Kelly McBride, a vice president at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in Florida, said she wondered how the Times had justified calling Neera Tanden’s mother. The exact terms of the interview between the Times and Tanden’s mother are of course not clear. In general, ethical journalism requires that sources be made aware before an interview that their quotes are going to be used in a story, unless they specify their remarks are “off the record.” Some said they thought that Maya Tanden’s age and lack of media experience indicated that she likely should have been briefed with more care.
No matter where people stood on the issue, the piece and the intense reaction it generated, seemed to herald the return of the fraught dynamic that plagued the 2016 election for liberals: references to scandalous statements made in hacked emails, bitter criticism about the Democratic establishment’s alignment with moneyed interests, and questions about the news media’s role as an impartial brokers in a heated debate playing out on social media.
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