Posted on 01/24/2025 3:58:51 AM PST by lowbridge
Two former Politico reporters spoke candidly about efforts made by their bosses to either slow-walk or completely quash their reporting on the Biden family during their time at the news outlet.
Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri, now journalists for Axios and Puck respectively, reflected on their time at Politico on Palmeri's "Somebody's Gotta Win" podcast.
Caputo called out Politico's "ill-fated headline" downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop scandal during the 2020 election.
"I mean, Politico, my former employer, and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors," Caputo said in the exchange, which was shared Thursday on YouTube. "I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least."
Caputo was referencing Politico's report, which had the headline "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say," on the open letter signed by 51 intelligence officials declaring that the material from Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the earmarks of a Russian intelligence operation." The report came days after The New York Post published its bombshell reporting about the laptop in October 2020.
Caputo also shed light on a report he had written in 2019 that stemmed from opposition research from a rival Democratic campaign of then-candidate Joe Biden regarding a "tax lien" of Hunter's pertaining to his work at Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
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That toilet bowl cleaner, Politico, is desperately denying this. Their credibility is gone.
Isn’t it funny how all of a sudden people are coming out of the woodwork saying how there was an INTENTIONAL cover-up of ALL bad news regarding Joey, his family, his perverted administration, etc., etc.
Message to these reporters, “Learn how to Code.”
By show of hands, to whom is this news?
What a surprise! NOT!
Think about ALL the Democratics sucking back the Kool-aid!
That ship sailed many, many moons ago...
Hardly read that site. I dont think you can post it here anymore.
Whenever the government or media uses the word disinformation, it is generally understood now to mean the opposite.
Their credibility is blown.
And both reporters left biased left Politico and went to further biased left Axios and Puck.
So there complaint apparently is Politico wasn’t biased enough.
“Ex-Politico reporters reveal editors quashed, slow-walked negative Biden stories ‘with no explanation’”
Sorry, but I DO NOT believe them. ‘Journalists’ at DNC-controlled outfits are 99% HARD-LEFT so the idea that they really wanted to weaken the Democrats by telling the truth about Biden is simply NOT CREDIBLE. However, this does make sense for them, as it gives them a way to respond to people who still think (or claim to think) that ‘journalists’ still have some integrity.
Kinda makes them accomplices.
They should be charged as such.
There’s no future in peddling Trump hatred. The old system is gone we’ll never see Biden again. Those who want to be seen have announced divorce issues. The Clinton’s are done. Over.
Politico has chosen the whimpering snivel. It won’t go well
Those begging Trump for mercy will slink away as well. They’re all boring. Trump is in no position to provide mercy. He’s not God
He’s fixing everything. Anyone trying to put a negative spin on this is finished
The late night laugh track princes will be gone while we go to bed at night tired from winning.
For a while I wrote articles for a living. I would never have shopped a negative lefty article to any brick and mortar media. Total waste of time. Same is true for the let’s digital media.
That Pollutico has long been Democrat propaganda surprises precisely nobody.
Nowhere does it mention the names of “the bosses”.
Who owns Politico and why did they let this happen?
with no explanation, like an explanation would make things ok
BTTT
Politico is owned by Axel Springer, Europe’s largest newspaper publisher. It also owns Business Insider. Axel Springer is a German company. There have been reports Axel Springer has received CIA funding.
It is news that the rats are leaving a sinking ship.
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