Bloomberg News pledges not to investigate Democratic presidential candidates

Peter Hasson, DCNF

ATLANTA, GA - NOVEMBER 20:<br /> Presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during the Democratic presidential debate at Tyler Perry Studios on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia. The 10 qualifying candidates participated in the campaign seasons fifth debate, hosted by The Washington Post via Getty Images and MSNBC.(Photo by Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images) — (Photo by Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Bloomberg News won’t conduct investigative reporting on any of the Democratic presidential candidates, the outlet’s editor-in-chief announced Sunday.

The announcement followed Michael Bloomberg‘s official campaign launch Sunday. “We will continue our tradition of not investigating Mike (and his family and his foundation) and we will extend the same policy to his rivals in the Democratic primaries,” editor-in-chief John Micklethwait wrote in a note to staffers.

“If other credible journalistic institutions publish investigative work on Mike or the other Democratic candidates, we will either publish those articles in full, or summarize them for our readers — and we will not hide them.”

This idea that Bloomberg News will investigate Trump but not Democrats seems… problematic https://t.co/Zc7k91u9qJ

— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) November 24, 2019

For the time being, the news outlet “will continue to investigate the Trump administration, as the government of the day,” Micklethwait added. He also revealed that two of Bloomberg News’ top opinion editors, Tim O’Brien and David Shipley, will be joining their boss’s campaign.

Bloomberg in September defended Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, who the billionaire said isn’t actually a dictator.

“The communist party wants to stay in power in China, and they listen to the public,” he said in an interview with PBS “Firing Line” host Margaret Hoover. “Xi Jinping is not a dictator. He has to satisfy his constituents, or he’s not going to survive.”

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