CNN’s Oliver Darcy was furious in Wednesday night’s “Reliable Sources” um, “newsletter,” with his email headline attacking “The Journal Infernal.” You’re writing from a rung in Hell if you’ve written anything that could help Trump the orange Satan. This isn’t the editorial page. This is the news section. Darcy began:
The Wall Street Journal owes its readers — and the public — better.
The business broadsheet published and hyped a story Wednesday declaring that “behind closed doors,” President Joe Biden has shown “signs of slipping.” The story questioned Biden’s mental acuity, playing into a GOP-propelled narrative that the 81-year-old president lacks the fitness to hold the nation’s highest office.
But an examination of the report reveals a glaring problem: Most of the sources reporters Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes relied on were…
