Kelly McBride has been NPR’s ombudsman since 2020.
Courtesy of Poynter Institute
Posted on 10/20/2024 3:31:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin
National Public Radio’s public editor said she was “really uncomfortable” with large tech companies “censoring” The Post’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop — but gave her own outlet a free pass for declining to cover the story.
Kelly McBride, who has been NPR’s ombudsman since 2020, told The Wrap that tech firms such as X and Facebook were wrong to prevent users from sharing links to The Post’s revelations about the laptop, whose hard drive included emails linking the Biden family to a Ukrainian businessman.
“I was really uncomfortable with the tech companies censoring it,” McBride said. “Who are they to be the arbiters of truth?”
Kelly McBride has been NPR’s ombudsman since 2020.
Courtesy of Poynter Institute
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At the time, NPR also declined to cover the laptop story. Terence Samuels, who was NPR’s managing editor at the time, said his outlet didn’t “want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.”
McBride said that NPR couldn’t adequately cover the laptop story because The Post “didn’t make the entire laptop available.” She also accused The Post of “shaming and humiliating” Hunter Biden.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I joined Twitter briefly pre-Musk and you couldn’t click on the website without seeing Hunter naked or smoking crack or having sex with young women. It was unavoidable.
Hunter humiliated himself.
Translation: nothing like being a whore for leftists.
“I have a double standard. Here, let me try to justify it for you ...”
Feeble thought was....
We at npr have to present an apolitical posture being the source of our funding includes the publics money so therefore we take no stance either way on humters beating a rap.
She faced her test, and failed it. She did not throw her body into the breach, when honor called for her self-sacrifice.
Did NPR similarly bury the Steele dossier?
So uncomfortable in fact she decided to speak about it publicly.
Four years later.
So brave.
Defund CPB...
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