“The NYT story on Neera Tanden should never have brought her mom into it,” Brian Fallon, a former Clinton staffer, tweeted. https://t.co/KQE8Q8OSxy — Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) April 16, 2019Kelly McBride, a vice president at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in Florida, said she wondered how the Times had justified calling Neera Tanden’s mother. “It includes accurate, on-the-record comments by Maya Tanden, Neera Tanden’s mother. Léger said that Tanden’s mother also declined to comment further. It seemed to mimic a political attack on Sanders; even Tanden rebuked it as “overly harsh” and an impediment to constructive political debate.

Source: Washington Post April 17, 2019 02:26 UTC