NPR managing editor: We’d report on Hunter’s e-mails, but we don’t want to bother you, or something

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By Ed Morrissey

Old and busted: Reporting without fear or favor. New hotness: Ignoring stories involving corruption at the highest levels of government as a “waste of time.” This rationalization from NPR is taking a well-deserved beating today on social media, attempting to explain away why they haven’t even covered the Hunter Biden e-mail story — even though the Bidens still haven’t actually denied their authenticity.

Hey, I’m just here for the ratio:



There are many, many red flags in that New York Post investigation. NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik detailed most of them here. Intelligence officials warn that Russia has been working overtime to keep the story of Hunter Biden in the spotlight. Even if Russia can’t 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.

But the biggest reason you haven’t heard much on NPR about the Post story is that the assertions don’t amount to much.

“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,” NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel told me. “And quite frankly, that’s where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.”

The handful of stories that NPR has produced about the NY Post investigation have been limited to how Facebook and Twitter are restricting distribution of the story or how families of those seeking treatment for addiction are impacted by the portrayal of Hunter Biden’s struggle.

Were there red flags in the story? Yes indeed, and those are (or were) part of the story, but those don’t make it “not really a story.” If this was actually Russian disinformation, well, that’s a story of import in this election. If that was the case, however, the Bidens could have issued an immediate and specific denial — and that would have been a story. They still haven’t — and that’s a story, too. Furthermore, the nation’s top intel officer announced last week that the Russians don’t have anything to do with it, although John Ratcliffe is not exactly non-partisan. Still, that too was a story.

And over the last 24 hours, at least one Hunter Biden associate on the e-mail chain in question has come forward to claim that the Post’s original reporting on the “smoking gun” e-mail was accurate and not faked. Not only is that a story, it makes the first report even more of a story. That got published several hours before NPR sent out its “we don’t wish to disturb you” take on Twitter, which means that they’re still not taking any journalistic interest in this.

I wonder if this will grab ’em?

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Remind me again why taxpayer money is used to fund NPR’s propaganda support for the DNC? A story about even an alleged Hunter Biden laptop being uncovered isn’t a story? Damn, Trump watching hookers piss on a bed, without any verification, named sources, documentation or evidence was damn sure a story… one HELLUVA story, which runs to this day, even though it’s validity has been utterly destroyed.

NPR needs to get its funding from the DNC; that’s the only audience it serves anyway.

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npr services the pseudo-intellectuals of the middle and upper middle class. uni. profs and instructors rehash npr reports into their marx’s lectures. yes, if one ever worked in academia, than one knows how one becomes a prof. or dept chair. npr one of the propaganda outlet to the democraps. if one has a high social circle and attends the gathering of snobs, listen to the parroting of the daily or weekly npr propaganda during the social hour? amazing! Dr. John can tell you all about these academic social gathering.
excellent book out Tenured Radicals y Roger Kimball on marxist academic education. recall that npr is heavily infected into the academic world.

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The stories have NOT been verified. No official in Russia has confirmed the hoax.
Until Russia confesses, the story will remain undocumented.
China must also admit their collusion.
Nothing to see here. Just move on.

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