NPR Issues Newsletter ‘Explaining’ Why They Won’t Cover Hunter Biden Laptop, Claims it’s Not Really a Story

‘NPR Public Editor’ on Twitter is letting the world know why, in their opinion, the Hunter Biden laptop scandal that began as a New York Post article getting partially censored is “not really a story”, so they decided to make a story about it in so many ways.

We know that in our view, NPR is left-leaning, as are many major media news outlets. It’s no surprise that, despite the potential of the New York Post bombshell, which is still developing in the news cycle, many outlets are likely to downplay it. But the irony of tweeting a ‘story’ of how something isn’t a story just reeks of one-sidedness in our view.

We should be able to expect better of NPR, but if you’ve been paying attention lately, we can’t really expect better of NPR. A tweet chain put out this morning started out with: “Why haven’t you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story? Read more in this week’s newsletter”

The tweet included a screenshot from the newsletter appearing to attempt to discredit the stories circulating about a laptop of Hunter Biden’s that could potentially have damaging information to him and possibly his father’s campaign for the presidency just a couple weeks out from the election.

NPR’s media journalist published this analysis of the NYPost’s Hunter Biden story. More about why newsroom leaders decided not pursue more coverage in this week’s newsletter ➡️➡️https://t.co/CJesPgmGvohttps://t.co/cQiCGS9p7A

— NPR Public Editor (@NPRpubliceditor) October 22, 2020

Tucker Carlson ally Pedro Gonzalez tweeted out his view on the matter, not mincing words in any way:

“Left-wing journalists should be treated like hostile partisans.” he says, comparing NPR coverage to the “Steele Dossier” to current coverage of the Hunter Biden scandal. The idea appears to be to show that they aren’t even about not covering things that may not have credibility, even though aspects of the Biden laptop story appear very credible, and the Dossier was not, they are just partisan he implies.

Left-wing journalists should be treated like hostile partisans. https://t.co/eGqwqeweiE

— Pedro 🎃 Gonzalez (@emeriticus) October 22, 2020

In the newsletter explaining why the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is ‘not a real story’ is a link to an NPR story explaining how an ‘ex-Sean Hannity producer’ and Rudy Giuliani are behind much of the spreading of the story, which attempts to explain why that alone should throw shade in the minds of the Americans according to NPR.

NPR’s linked story says in part:

It is a classic moment in the weeks before Election Day: a news outlet runs a front-page exclusive promising scandalous revelations about a big-ticket candidate.

This week, the New York Post published a story based on what it says are emails — “smoking gun” emails, it calls them — sent by a Ukrainian business executive to the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The story fits snugly into a narrative from President Trump and his allies that Hunter Biden’s zealous pursuit of business ties abroad also compromised the former vice president.

Yet this was a story marked more by red flags than investigative rigor.

To start, the emails have not been verified as authentic. They were said to have been extracted from a computer assumed — but not proven — to have belonged to the younger Biden. They were said to have been given to the Post by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who is known for making discredited claims about the Bidens.

This piece was put out on October 17th. But on October 16th the New York Post put out a piece claiming to be able to verify at least some of the Hunter Biden emails were indeed real, and DNI head John Ratcliffe has confirmed that the laptop and emails are not a product of a Russian campaign.

From the New York Post:

An email thread that appears to show Hunter Biden pursuing a lucrative energy business deal in China — and possibly cutting his father in on the action — has been verified as authentic by one of its recipients, Fox News reported Friday night.

NPR appears to have some explaining to do here, but it is probably not going to happen. Only time will tell exactly what is to come of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. The FBI is reportedly in possession of it and is remaining tight lipped. Chief of Staff to the White House Mark Meadows says investigative journalists are likely to be the only ones to issue anything new on the story before the election.

It’s ok for different news outlets to push different stories and have different opinions if they say that it’s their opinion. The censorship of stories before they are even debunked though, is a scary concept, especially when ‘reputable sources’ like NPR appear to try and sow doubt in things they themselves can’t even prove.

In the end, it will be up to the American citizen and activist to spend the extra time reading and researching what is actually going on because too many who claim to be ‘mainstream’ sources of information are actually rooting for and giving in-kind contributions to the Biden campaign in our view.

The NPR newsletter and linked story contain a lot more rhetoric and opinion, and some, we assume, ‘facts’, should you choose to read it all more thoroughly.