Did the media fall short in its reporting on Graham Platner?

‘In the case of Maine’s Senate race, the ink is still wet, and the history is still being written.’ Photograph: Troy R Bennett/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

After the New York Times published an article in early June about the Senate candidate Graham Platner’s treatment of the women he dated, the story’s main source reacted with disappointment and anger.

It was a “gift to the Platner campaign”, charged Lyndsey Fifield, who had dated the Democratic combat veteran years ago and who spoke candidly to the Times about that experience.