The Hunter Biden laptop story would have given Americans in 2020 a clear idea of the type of family they were voting into the White House for the next four years.
However, the establishment and their media cohorts decided Americans did not deserve the truth in order to make their decision at the ballot box.
Despite this glaringly obvious fact, the media continued to call Conservatives “paranoid conspiracy theorists” until it was eventually proven that the “laptop from hell” was, in fact, real.
An NPR top editor has openly admitted that it refused to report on the Hunter Biden laptop story because it would have helped President Donald Trump win the election.
We already saw NPR’s true colors in 2016, when it “veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.”
A senior business editor at NPR admitted this in a Tuesday Op-Ed for The Free Press.
In 2020, the New York Post reported on the shocking contents of a hard drive from a computer Hunter Biden abandoned at Delaware repair shop.
Despite the story being suppressed by Big Tech companies, while dozens of former and current intelligence officials labeled it as “Russian disinformation,” the contents of the laptop have since been proven authentic.
Berliner noted that “with the election only weeks away, NPR turned a blind eye” to the story.
“Here’s how NPR’s managing editor for news at the time explained the thinking: ‘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.'”
“But it wasn’t a pure distraction or a product of Russian disinformation,” Berliner wrote.
“The laptop did belong to Hunter Biden. Its contents revealed his connection to the corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling and its possible implications for his father.
“The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched,” he added.
“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.”
“We could face up to where we’ve gone wrong. News organizations don’t go in for that kind of reckoning. But there’s a good reason for NPR to be the first: we’re the ones with the word ‘public’ in our name.” @uriberliner's hope for a U.S. media institution. https://t.co/EclQJO838a pic.twitter.com/CvFfSoL3xx
— The Free Press (@TheFP) April 9, 2024
Of course, this isn’t the first time NPR used the “Russia, Russia, Russia” narrative to damage Trump.
Berliner said that during the Russian collusion hoax, NPR “hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.”
Berliner described Schiff as “NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse,” noting that he was interviewed about Russiagate 25 times and that “Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.”
He also said the NPR’s dismissal of the lab leak theory for the origin of COVID-19 was “politics … blotting out the curiosity and independence that ought to have been driving our work.”
Berliner also admitted NPR has not changed, as seen with its coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas.
“We have approached the Israel-Hamas war and its spillover onto streets and campuses through the ‘intersectional’ lens that has jumped from the faculty lounge to newsrooms. Oppressor versus oppressed,” he wrote.
“That’s meant highlighting the suffering of Palestinians at almost every turn while downplaying the atrocities of October 7, overlooking how Hamas intentionally puts Palestinian civilians in peril, and giving little weight to the explosion of antisemitic hate around the world.”
But NPR’s acting chief content officer, Edith Chapin, rushed to defend the station.
“I and my colleagues on the leadership team strongly disagree with Uri’s assessment of the quality of our journalism and the integrity of our newsroom processes,” she said, according to the New York Post.
“With all this said, none of our work is above scrutiny or critique.”
