"They want to prove they are independent of liberals & their own readers—who happen to be the same people. The Times equates independence with making us unhappy. Jay Rosen spotted that dynamic years ago. That—and petulance—is what drives The Times to #ButHerEmails and now #ButHisAge." https://medium.com/whither-news/the-times-is-broken-02a4a6a27f8c
Digby says, "It never fails. As they set up the Biden Xi press conference, they had to go into a long diatribe about the fact that he's old. In fact, it seems to be the most important thing about this whole event on CNN. It's not as if anything else is on the table here." #ButHisAge:
I replied: But his age is the Butter Emails of this Presidential campaign