NPR Editor: Bosses Squelched Hunter Laptop Story
By
James Morley III | Wednesday, 10 April 2024 07:31 PM EDT
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hunter-biden-laptop-trump/2024/04/10/id/1160524/
A
25-year veteran reporter for NPR has called out
his bosses at the network, saying they abandoned their journalistic standards
in regard to the Hunter Biden laptop story because fair coverage might have
aided then-President Donald Trump in his bid for reelection.
Writing
in Bari Weiss' The Free
Press on Tuesday, business editor and reporter Uri Berliner
took issue with how his superiors at NPR made the network "an openly
polemical news outlet serving a niche audience."
"The
laptop was newsworthy," Berliner wrote. "But the timeless
journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched."
Just
prior to the 2020 presidential election, news first broke of a laptop that
then-candidate Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden had left at a computer repair store
in Delaware. The laptop contained information about the Biden family's alleged
influence peddling, in addition to nude photos and email exchanges involving
Hunter Biden.
Fifty-one
former intelligence officials signed a letter in October 2020 declaring the
laptop and its contents "Russian disinformation." It has since been
proven to be authentic.
According
to Berliner, NPR's managing editor for news at the time said, "We don't
want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't
want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just
pure distractions."
Berliner
wrote: "The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct
of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with
colleagues, I listened as one of NPR's best and most fair-minded journalists
said it was good we weren't following the laptop story because it could help
Trump."
The
veteran reporter also cited the Trump-Russia collusion allegations and the
origins of the coronavirus as other instances where the news organization
failed to offer diverse viewpoints.
"An
open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don't
have an audience that reflects America," he wrote.
Connecting
the Dots:
George Soros was a benefactor
for the NPR and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NPR.
Resources:
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