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The anatomy of the New York Post's dubious Hunter Biden story [From October 2020]
CNN ^ | October 18, 2020 | By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business

Posted on 12/10/2020 5:52:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Last week, the New York Post published a dubious story about Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden.

The Post story claims Hunter Biden helped arrange a meeting between Joe Biden and an executive at a Ukrainian energy company Burisma in April 2015. The series of stories contained hacked materials and personal email addresses, so Twitter initially prevented people from posting links to the article, sending it via direct message and retweeting it.

As CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter noted on "Reliable Sources" Sunday, "We are not talking about fully reliable sources here," referring to the New York Post's story.

"This is a classic example of the right-wing media machine," Stelter said. "Fox and Trump have this in common: They want you to stay mad and stay tuned."

The story is a "manufactured scandal," Stelter said, meant to feed "whataboutism" -- an opportunity for the right-wing media to shift the conversation from Trump's record to Biden's.

"The strategy is to deflect attention, to attack the opponent, and the same propaganda pipeline is there all the time," said Yochai Benkler, a professor at Harvard Law School told Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday.

Right-wing media is trying for the same strategy again as Election Day grows closer.

But unlike previous "closing argument" stories, the media world has largely ignored the Post's Hunter Biden story.

Stelter called the Post's story "political entertainment," written by a newspaper run by Rupert Murdoch and promoted by another Murdoch property: Fox News, which Stelter called "a producer of this serialized drama."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: biden; hunter; journalism; press

1 posted on 12/10/2020 5:52:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, the question raised is:
Did baby biden pay taxes or not?


2 posted on 12/10/2020 5:55:39 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN using ‘dubious’ = lmaogtfo, that is rich.....


3 posted on 12/10/2020 5:55:50 AM PST by cranked
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....the MSM and social media quashed the Hunter Biden story with such force b/c it showed that the cunning
Chinese have compromised so many of the US elite, that the story simply couldn’t be allowed to be heard ......

To me, the crucial point is that CNN itself decided to ditch Hunter’s laptop story to save Joe Biden’s *** because many Voters have since said they would not have voted for Biden if they had known of the laptop’s incendiary contents. CNN’s Zucker provided extremely valuable services to the Biden Campaign AND the Democratic Party far in excess of Federal election Law. Ergo, Zucker has unwittingly opened up himself and CNN to criminal prosecution.

TALKING POINTS
<><> Project Veritas, monitored and recorded CNN’s morning editorial conference call for some two months....
<><> CNN PTB are heard plotting the “news of the day”
<><> CNN head Zucker dictates the network’s editorial slant.
<><> Zucker and his henchmen are in lockstep
<><> CNN was heard manipulating news items, hand-picking stories to be reported, and how they will be presented......
<><> CNN itself decided Hunter’s laptop story should be ditched to save Joe Biden’s ***.
<><> Many voters said they would not have voted Biden if they knew about the contents of Hunter’s laptop.
<><> CNN made sure candidate Biden was protected at all costs.
<><> CNN is a criminal accessory after the fact, aiding and abetting, colluding in the Democrats’ election steal.
<><> L/E needs to uncover when CNN knew about the election steal....and when did they know it?

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4 posted on 12/10/2020 5:57:03 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't kno <Br> <><> Bilw which bathroom to use. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Taking odds that hunter dies in a car or plane crash.


5 posted on 12/10/2020 6:05:02 AM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dubious=anything CNN reports.


6 posted on 12/10/2020 6:11:24 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20

Yeah, who in the world would believe actual evidence? It’s not like some top british spy cobbled together some sort of dossier right?


7 posted on 12/10/2020 6:13:44 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When the MSM, in conjunction with big tech collectively refused to report or investigate honestly the Hunter Biden hard drive story, it moved from bias into open collusion with the frail, demented, corrupt Biden and the anti american globalists he fronts. The MSM and big tech forever lost its credibility. They are now the open enemies of the American nation and its people. They are one with the one world government globalists who seel to subgugate the American people to some sort of world government and strip them of their liberty and right to self determination. Know your enemies.


8 posted on 12/10/2020 6:19:31 AM PST by allendale
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To: Liz
...the MSM and social media quashed the Hunter Biden story with such force b/c it showed that the cunning Chinese have compromised so many of the US elite, that the story simply couldn’t be allowed to be heard...

A real Republican Party would have made sure it was heard...but they didn't want it heard either. For the exact same reason.

9 posted on 12/10/2020 6:21:50 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Terry L Smith

Yeah, you know how the DOJ/FBI investigation will go on this- assess some taxes and penalties, a little jail time, some or all suspended, maybe even a pardon along the way. “I made mistakes, and I let my family down.”


10 posted on 12/10/2020 6:23:23 AM PST by Fido969 (,i.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

11 posted on 12/10/2020 6:28:33 AM PST by New Perspective (Proud father of a son with Down Syndrome and fighting to keep him off Obama's death panels.)
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