Media Malpractice on Fetterman’s Health

There are sins of omission and there are sins of commission, and, in its coverage of John Fetterman’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate, the American press corps has managed to commit both in swift succession. Last week, an NBC reporter named Dasha Burns explained on air that “Fetterman’s campaign required closed captioning technology for this interview to essentially read our questions as we asked them,” and noted that, “in small talk before the interview without captioning, it wasn’t clear he was understanding our conversation.” Within minutes, all hell broke loose. Hitherto, the AP confirmed in...