{"id":1388533,"date":"2022-03-18T13:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388533"},"modified":"2022-03-18T13:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:59:54","slug":"look-how-media-propagandists-covered-the-trump-russia-hoax-vs-the-bombshell-biden-laptop-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/look-how-media-propagandists-covered-the-trump-russia-hoax-vs-the-bombshell-biden-laptop-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Look How Media Propagandists Covered The Trump-Russia Hoax Vs. The Bombshell Biden Laptop Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flook-how-media-propagandists-covered-the-trump-russia-hoax-vs-the-bombshell-biden-laptop-scandal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388533&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-18-at-9.49.29-AM-e1647615158748.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/17\/after-throttling-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-with-hacked-and-russian-disinformation-lies-propaganda-press-quietly-admit-it-was-completely-legit\/\">quietly admitted<\/a> this week that Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop is legitimate \u2014 something the corrupt media baselessly called \u201cdisinformation\u201d in the run-up to the 2020 election to conceal Biden family corruption \u2014 it\u2019s worth contrasting how so-called journalists covered that story versus the Russia collusion hoax to take down Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to the legitimate Hunter Biden laptop story just one month before the November 2020 election, Big Tech, the fake news media, and Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/22\/npr-says-they-wont-cover-the-hunter-biden-story-because-russia-and-it-doesnt-amount-to-much\/\">blew it off<\/a> and nuked mentions of Biden family corruption from the internet. False and ostentatious claims about the discredited Steele dossier and Trump\u2019s alleged sexual activities in Moscow, however, were given years of coverage that assumed he was guilty before ever seeing proof. <\/p>\n<p>There wasn\u2019t any hard evidence that this happened. Any mention of \u201cgolden showers\u201d by Christopher Steele \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump\/\">a guy hired by a firm hired by Trump\u2019s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton<\/a> \u2014 came through secondhand accounts, but the corporate media treated it as fact, not disinformation. Yet when it came to Hunter\u2019s laptop, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000\">former intelligence heads<\/a> wrote an open letter claiming without evidence that Russians orchestrated the story, and the media ran with the \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d narrative. The contrast in the media\u2019s treatment is glaring.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"see-for-yourself\">See for Yourself<\/h2>\n<p>Here was Vanity Fair in 2018: \u201cTrump\u2019s Pee-Tape Alibi Is Falling Apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in 2020, Vanity Fair claimed that the credible reporting of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop discovery \u201creeks\u201d of Russian influence and that the story wasn\u2019t a \u201csmoking gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN similarly ran dozens of stories highlighting the bogus Steele dossier as a \u201cbombshell,\u201d but was quick to call the Biden family bombshell \u201cdubious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe anatomy of the New York post\u2019s dubious Hunter Biden story,\u201d one CNN headline stated. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Washington Post acknowledged that the pee-tape story might not be real but still ran stories claiming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/real-or-fake-news-either-way-lewd-tape-allegations-pose-a-challenge-for-trump\/2018\/04\/13\/098cdedc-3f2b-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html\">\u201cReal or \u2018fake news\u2019? Either way, allegations of lewd tape pose challenge for Trump.\u201d<\/a> WaPo\u2019s coverage of Hunter, however, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/14\/hunter-bidens-alleged-laptop-an-explainer\/\">framed to cast doubt<\/a> on the facts of his laptop despite good reports validating it. <\/p>\n<p>NPR made a big show out of covering the \u201cBizzare Twists And Turns\u201d of Trump\u2019s nonexistent collusion with Russia but flat-out refused to cover anything related to Hunter\u2019s corruption, saying it \u201cdoesn\u2019t amount to much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Look how Slate covered Trump and Russia:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset,\u201d one headline <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2021\/03\/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html\">read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames Comey Says the Pee Tape Is (Maybe) Real (He Really Can\u2019t Say (The Pee Tape Is Real)),\u201d flashed another <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2018\/04\/james-comey-its-possible-that-pee-incident-really-happened.html\">article<\/a>, which just linked to an interview with Comey.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to the Hunter story, however, Slate published an article criticizing the Delaware repair shop that possessed the abandoned laptop for not being ethical. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>And here\u2019s The Daily Beast\u2019s fare: \u201cChristopher Steele: Yes, Trump\u2019s Pee Tape \u2018Probably\u2019 Exists,\u201d the outlet was still saying in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The same outlet\u2019s coverage of Hunter\u2019s overseas dealings, however, chalked the emails up to Russian disinformation. <\/p>\n<p>Politico, the outlet that published the \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d open letter from people who hadn\u2019t seen the laptop, also stretched its coverage of the dossier and the pee tape despite reports discrediting both. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Vice ran multiple explainers about the Russia collusion racket to break down \u201ceverything you need to know about the \u2018pee tape\u2019 dossier and its funders,\u201d but deemed the Biden family corruption story \u201cconspiracy candy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe Are Collectively Losing Touch With Reality and It\u2019s Extremely Obvious,\u201d Vice claimed in response to the laptop. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-real-collusion\">The Real Collusion<\/h2>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until this week that The New York Times stealthily admitted in the 24th paragraph of an unexciting article about Hunter that the laptop story was true. That confession came after five years of collusion lies and speculation about whether there was actually a tape documenting Democrats\u2019 wannabe scandal. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p id=\"both-corporate-media-and-big-tech-abandoned-their-function-of-information-collection-and-dissemination-to-instead-meddle-in-the-2016-and-2020-elections-most-recently-suppressing-a-story-that-had-the-potential-to-change-americans-votes\">Both corporate media and Big Tech abandoned their function of information collection and dissemination to instead meddle in the 2016 and 2020 elections, most recently suppressing a story that had the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/24\/poll-one-in-six-biden-voters-would-have-changed-their-vote-if-they-had-known-about-scandals-suppressed-by-media\/\">potential to change<\/a>\u00a0Americans\u2019 votes. <\/p>\n<p>The fake news media whined about Trump working with Russia for years, despite not a shred of evidence to support their outrageous theory. It was only when the dishonest press teamed up with social media oligarchs to nuke the Hunter Biden story that the real collusion happened. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After The New York Times quietly admitted this week that Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop is legitimate \u2014 something the corrupt media baselessly called \u201cdisinformation\u201d in the run-up to the 2020 election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}