I believe women and I don't think anyones story should be discounted, on the contrary I think all stories should be given equal weight. Right wing scum are trying to catch anti trump voters in a trap. It's the classic disinformation play, find one “scientist” who thinks humans are not causing global warming and then demand equal time. Convince journalists they must cover “both sides” or they are unethical. But by now we need to have learned when its 99-1 there aren't 2 sides, there are 100 sides and the deniers should get 1% of the story not 50% of the story.
The same is true for Tara Reade. Is her story plausible? sure. Is Biden’s defense plausible? sure, But this misses the point and will be the “but her emails” of the 2020 election if journalists don’t learn from their mistakes. Believe Tara and provide her with a fair shake but believe “Trump’s 25” as well and give them equal time.
If you’re at the Times or the Post and you plan on doing a Tara story I implore you to make it Story 13 in a 26 part series on presidential accusers in the 2020 campaign. This will give Ms. Reade her fair hearing while destroying the right wing disinformation campaign. It is also the ONLY ethical way to cover the story. #MeToo means #ThemAsWell.