Nearly every piece on the topic from mainstream outlets focused on amplifying the debunked assertion that the story was merely Russian disinformation. Some outlets, including taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, went a step further by mocking the now-100 percent chance that the laptop from hell was real. And they bragged about the cover they provided for Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and Democrats just before the 2020 election in their "news"letter (news in scare quotes before it wasn't news, it was pro-Biden propaganda).
"Why haven't you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post's Hunter Biden story?" NPR tweeted in October 2020. The obvious answer: Because NPR was going along with the Democrat-approved narrative that there was no there, there.
Let's take a walk down memory lane to see just how certain NPR wanted to sound that their hero, Joe Biden, had zero baggage and definitely had nothing to do with his shady son's questionable business dealings:
There are many, many red flags in that New York Post investigation. NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik detailed most of them here. Intelligence officials warn that Russia has been working overtime to keep the story of Hunter Biden in the spotlight. Even if Russia can’t be positively connected to this information, the story of how Trump associates Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani came into a copy of this computer hard drive has not been verified and seems suspect. And if that story could be verified, the NY Post did no forensic work to convince consumers that the emails and photos that are the basis for their report have not been altered.Ah, the "many, many red flags" / "seems suspect" explanation. Pretty rich for NPR — which again botched a story and reported literally fake news about the Supreme Court's COVID protocol in order to attack conservative justices. Undermining The New York Post for not conducting forensic work while also going to print with stories about SCOTUS that are unsourced and uncorroborated is...peak NPR.
Back to NPR's explanation for not covering Hunter Biden's laptop:
But the biggest reason you haven’t heard much on NPR about the Post story is that the assertions don’t amount to much.The handful of stories that NPR has produced about the NY Post investigation have been limited to how Facebook and Twitter are restricting distribution of the story or how families of those seeking treatment for addiction are impacted by the portrayal of Hunter Biden's struggle.
“We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel told me. “And quite frankly, that's where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.”
"Don't amount to much?" Really? Really. What part of "ten percent for the big guy" aka Joe Biden the now-President of the United States — not to mention the rest of...
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5 comments:
As taxpayers we should demand accountability at NPR for gross malfeasance and remove all funding (ya know, like the woke ESG crowd?)
Fire the whole lot from the top down and you can keep your funding, otherwise, buh-bye gov't grants.
Sadly there are plenty of people that think themselves informed because they listen to NPR. It seems to be a requirement for these people to lead off a conversation with "I heard on NPR..." as if this lends some sort of credibility to their viewpoint.
You act as though your expectations for NPR were that they would honestly report the significance of the laptop. And than you're all butt hurt when they act exactly as they always have. They're scum and need to be defunded by this government.
The very same government that was revealed to have paid 100s of millions to "private sector" media to hype the vax and censor the alarming stories about the injuries, deaths and ineffecticeness.
So is NPR the problem? Or a symptom?
Fire 'em all. Shut NPR down.
With government debt and inflation it is time to get rid of useless and overlapping government agencies and grants. We do not need PBS or NPR. Also agencies like the FBI that are not operating per the Constitution and have started to operate as political agencies should be eliminated.
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