Editorial: How bad was Joe Biden’s Thursday? Awful.
How rough was special counsel Robert K. Hur’s report on Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, released Thursday afternoon? It first seemed to depend on your newspaper of choice.
“Biden Cleared in Documents Case; Report Raises Concerns About His Memory,” read the headline in The New York Times, leading with what Democrats desperately hoped the main takeaway would be.
“Biden Knowingly Kept and Shared Classified Material, Special Counsel Concludes,” read the contemporaneous story in The Wall Street Journal, foregrounding exactly the opposite.
Both papers pivoted in what we call subheads in the newspaper business, with the Times duly
