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The Shoddy Journalism Behind the Non-story “Parkinson’s” Newsflash.

When innuendo overshadows fact

Tim Ward, Mature Flâneur
6 min readJul 12, 2024
Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

I’ve had it with the shoddy reporting from the media towards President Biden. No fact checking, just jumping on the bandwagon on every new negative angle without verifying the underlying reality, smearing with innuendo that simply can’t be undone by a retraction.

Yeah, I’m talking about you, NYT, WaPo, and every major TV network that reported the eights visit of a Parkinson’s specialist to the White House, falsely implying these visits were connected with President Biden’s health.

The facts — for those hacks still spinning this shitball of stupidity — are that seven of these eight visits were for policy guidance, by a world-class expert on Parkinson’s — all part of the signing into law of the Parkinson’s Bill on July 2, 2024.

One of those visits — one of them — was in January, 2024, as this doctor takes part in Biden’s annual fitness exam, and has done for three years, along with other specialists. The results of that examination were…

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Tim Ward, Mature Flâneur
Tim Ward, Mature Flâneur

Written by Tim Ward, Mature Flâneur

Author, communications expert and publisher of Changemakers Books, Tim is now a full time Mature Flaneur, wandering Europe with Teresa, his beloved wife.

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