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Burying the Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was Journalistic Malpractice | Opinion
Newsweek ^ | March 25, 2022 | Jonathan Tobin

Posted on 03/25/2022 8:40:25 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

It was buried in the 24th paragraph of a story that was itself buried on page 20 of a newspaper published when the public's attention was focused on Ukraine. But for those whose memories extend back to 17 months ago, the admission published in The New York Times on March 17 was political dynamite—the information on the laptop that veterans of the national security establishment claimed was Russian disinformation was, in fact, exactly what reports published in the New York Post in October 2020 said they were: evidence of the Biden family's influence peddling abroad, that the senior Biden was aware of his son's activities and might well have profited from them.

The discovery of the laptop came just weeks before the 2020 presidential election. But the reaction from most of the media—including the Times—was to ignore it.

Even worse, the Big Tech companies that control the information superhighway and social media platforms sought to prevent the dissemination of any information about the laptop and what Hunter Biden had been up to in Ukraine and China while his father was vice president. The Post's Twitter account was, for a time, shut down. Those who attempted to retweet the story were prevented from doing so. Anyone who raised the issue or complained about the refusal to cover the story were accused of spreading "disinformation."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hunterbiden; journalism; laptop
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Tagline explaines it all.


21 posted on 03/25/2022 9:37:56 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The use of the word “malpractice” suggests that there is an accepted/expected level of standard these organizations failed to maintain or reach in their reporting endeavors.

Let’s be honest, there hasn’t been an OUNCE of “honesty” expected from a journalist, or even the talking heads on TV, since Kronkite! And even HE showed biased in his work!

This wasn’t malpractice...this was SEDITION and TREASON - PERIOD!

Every one of the controlling editors of each of those stations, newspapers, magazines, etc...should be arrested, perp-walked, tried, convicted, and HUNG - ON PUBLIC TV!


22 posted on 03/25/2022 9:46:17 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Not malpractice it’s called a cover up the MSM all have the same name Willard.


23 posted on 03/25/2022 9:48:44 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: CodeToad

the sedition and insurrection going on by the liberals.

Ditto.


24 posted on 03/25/2022 10:00:04 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: garjog

Bingo that’s Soviet tactic


25 posted on 03/26/2022 2:57:26 AM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Burying the Hunter laptop was a classic communist psyop!


26 posted on 03/28/2022 6:22:43 AM PDT by gr8eman (When you're bought and paid for by commies...you're a commie!)
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