{"id":76036,"date":"2026-07-13T05:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/did-the-media-fall-short-in-its-reporting-on-graham-platner\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:54:49","slug":"did-the-media-fall-short-in-its-reporting-on-graham-platner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/did-the-media-fall-short-in-its-reporting-on-graham-platner\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the media fall short in its reporting on Graham Platner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The twisting road to the candidate\u2019s exit left a lot to be desired. But ultimately, reporters ferreted out the truth<\/p>\n<p>After the New York Times published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/04\/us\/politics\/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html\">article<\/a> in early June about the Senate candidate Graham Platner\u2019s treatment of the women he dated, the story\u2019s main source reacted with disappointment and anger.<\/p>\n<p>It was a \u201cgift to the Platner campaign\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/me\/maine\/politics\/2026\/06\/05\/platner-ex-girlfriend-blasts-new-york-times-story-detailing-alleged-abuse\">charged Lyndsey Fifield<\/a>, who had dated the Democratic combat veteran years ago and who spoke candidly to the Times about that experience.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jul\/13\/graham-platner-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The twisting road to the candidate\u2019s exit left a lot to be desired. But ultimately, reporters ferreted out the truth After the New York Times published an article in early June about the Senate candidate Graham Platner\u2019s treatment of the women he dated, the story\u2019s main source reacted with disappointment and anger. It was a &#8230; <a title=\"Did the media fall short in its reporting on Graham Platner?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/did-the-media-fall-short-in-its-reporting-on-graham-platner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Did the media fall short in its reporting on Graham Platner?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}