Posted on 10/22/2020 11:33:40 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A tweet from the National Public Radio Public (NPR) Editor on Thursday on the day of the presidential debate explained why the taxpayer-funded news outlet has been ignoring the growing scandal surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and the familys business dealings in China.
Why havent you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Posts Hunter Biden story, the tweet said. We dont want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we dont want to waste listeners and readers time on that stories that are just pure distractions.
The tweet included the link to a newsletter written by Kelly McBride, who is with the Poynter Institute, the so-called gatekeeper for good journalism.
McBrides justification for ignoring the real and growing scandal involving Joe Bidens family, and now his vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), is:
There are many, many red flags in that New York Post Investigation. NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik detailed most of them Intelligence officials warn that Russia has been working overtime to keep the story of Hunter Biden in the spotlight. Even if Russia cant 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.
In fact, Breitbart News reported on what has unfolded and been verified since the New York Post report on the Bidens broke, even as Twitter and left-wing media such as NPR continue to censor the news. Breitbart News reported:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Cut the purse strings NOW!
Please win this election and then there will be justice.
WOW, full Biden protection mode.
Using Russia again, when Hunter’s partner has confirmed everything and now.
Yep, defund NPR
And more.
If we are going to fund NPR, we might as well fund Chinese and North Korean state radio.
Meanwhile The Washington Post built their Watergate story around the hearsay of two of their reporters talking to an anonymous source in a garage supplying unverifiable information and brought down a Republican President. Compare that to a story involving text and actual e mail in wr0ting by the subjects of the investigation along with a written statement by a named partner in the investigation verifying the e mail and texts and the laptop verified by H Biden’s signature to be his when he dropped it off That’s not good enough for the Post in the investigation of a Democrat presidential candidate
NPR - now there is a government funded institution worthy of de-funding!!!!!!!
And here, folks, is the party-line response to the Biden story. “We don’t believe it, so it isn’t true.” is essentially the logic here. Notice they didn’t say they are going to look into it to see if it’s true; they just declared that it wasn’t worth their time. So, there you have it. “If we don’t believe it happened, it didn’t happen.” You can defund NPR, but it won’t change the point here, and this we’ve now arrived in a place and time where the gatekeepers *determine* what is real and true for the public.
During the height of the Watergate hearings, Art Buchwald had a column to the effect of “what did we talk about before there was Watergate?”
Yeah, and I don’t waste my time listening to you at all.
The very same Poynter institute that wrote a glowing article about Brandy Zadrozny a couple years back?
*that* paragon of good journalistic reporting?
We dont want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories
Why not, we are wasting our tax dollars funding your partisan, corrupt and unethical existence while you try to blow smoke in our face claiming you are non-partisan
We all have been played for 50 years.
People wonder how a Soviet system of oppression and speech-restriction occurs.
It occurs just like this.
Defund NPR now
It does not matter to me I don’t waste my time listening to this silly Network !
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