By ALEX THOMPSON and MAX TANI
03/23/2022 06:00 PM EDT
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When JOE BIDEN ran for president, his campaign team complained to anyone who would listen about what they perceived to be unfair coverage in The New York Times. But these days, the president and his team are striking a different tone about America’s most prominent newspaper. That’s largely thanks to the work of one reporter.
Over the past month, the White House’s press shop has repeatedly promoted stories from The New York Times’ fact-checker, LINDA QIU.
Biden cited a Qiu piece himself earlier this month when he addressed House Democrats in Philadelphia. “Headline fact checker in the New York Times: “Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices,” he said, reading the headline of the piece. “And it goes on to explain why gas prices are so high.”
Many members of the president’s press team have also become Qiu content boosters in recent weeks.
On March 10, deputy press secretary ANDREW BATES tweeted out the same Qiu fact check on why “Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices,” adding a touch of his own commentary. “The only way to be straight with readers is to include this context,” Bates noted.
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