USA Today Tara Reade article a classic case of media bias

Is USA Today article just media bias or has it been used by the CIA to manipulate public opinion?

In 2007, when ex-CIA agent and torture whistleblower John Kiriakou revealed that the CIA regularly plants articles in US media outlets to manipulate public opinion, one of the news outlets he mentioned was USA Today. Unfortunately, this publication does not appear to be making any attempt to rehabilitate its image as an unbiased source of information.

In their recent piece about another whistleblower against the abuse of power, Tara Reade; USA Today opted not to speak to Reade directly, nor to her media representative, nor to her lawyer, but instead interviewed not one, but two US intelligence officials for comment, while stating “several former U.S. intelligence officials” had apparently contacted the journal with their opinions about Reade.