{"id":1389568,"date":"2022-03-19T08:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T12:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389568"},"modified":"2022-03-19T10:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T14:29:45","slug":"morris-new-york-times-disgrace-fake-paper-of-record-deceived-its-audience-about-laptop-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morris-new-york-times-disgrace-fake-paper-of-record-deceived-its-audience-about-laptop-from-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris: New York Times Disgrace: Fake &#039;Paper of Record&#039; Deceived Its Audience About Laptop from Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fmorris-new-york-times-disgrace-fake-paper-of-record-deceived-its-audience-about-laptop-from-hell%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=1389568&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The <em>New York Times<\/em> casually mentioned in an article published Wednesday that the Laptop from Hell is authentic \u2014 after calling the original New York Post report \u201cbaroque mythology\u201d at the time it was published \u2014 but the \u201cPaper of Record\u201d should not get away with obscuring its own record of deceit on this story.<\/p>\n<p>The<em> Times<\/em> is just the latest among a series of left-wing activist outlets to tacitly come clean about the lies it spread in October 2020, coming around almost two years later to \u201cconfirm\u201d what we all already knew \u2014 that my original reporting on the laptop and its contents was accurate and true \u2014 but stopping just short of taking responsibility for its own role in spreading \u201cdisinformation\u201d about a critical story in the run-up to a presidential election.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Days after the<em> Post<\/em> published the Laptop from Hell series, the<em> Times<\/em> published a surreal column on October 23, by James Poniewozik, calling then-President Trump a \u201cFox superfan\u201d for quoting the report in the presidential debate and the contents of the report itself \u201cquestionable\u201d and \u201cunverified.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> published another column by Ross Douthat, on October 27, 2020, explicitly describing how the paper worked to ignore the substance of the story as part of covering it in a \u201ccautious fashion,\u201d even after Hunter\u2019s business associate, Tony Bobulinski, came out on the record to confirm Joe Biden\u2019s cut in their deals.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]his newspaper covered the story in a dry and cautious fashion, describing the Bobulinski allegations while also stressing the lack of definite evidence of the former vice president\u2019s involvement in any deal,\u201d Douthat wrote for the <em>Times.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Then, almost a year later, in September 2021, the <em>Times<\/em> published and then stealthily deleted the word \u201cunsubstantiated\u201d to describe the <em>Post<\/em>\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the paper is trying to pretend all of that just didn\u2019t happen \u2014 burying in paragraph 24 of a multiple-byline piece the scandal-scarred Biden\u2019s legal woes:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. <strong>Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation<\/strong>\u00a0[Emphasis added].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Superstar <em>New York Times<\/em> reporter Maggie Haberman, who received a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the Russia Collusion hoax, by the way, dared to post on Twitter, \u201cVia @nytimes colleagues, a deep dive into the Hunter Biden investigation, including that the emails released in late 2020, and characterized as possible Russian disinformation by some, were authentic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But no one at that paper has ever recalled their previous reporting to correct the record now, after they just abruptly decided the laptop is authentic, despite exactly zero new reporting.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> bills itself as the bastion of professional journalism and a beacon of truth \u2014 but no one in that newsroom, no one on the paper\u2019s flashy board of directors raised a word of objection at the time, or this week.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>To be fair, the <em>Times<\/em> is the paper of interest today, but it is not the first or only outlet that has been humiliated in this saga.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following the <em>Post<\/em>\u2019s censorship by Big Tech at the time the laptop series was published, <em>Politico<\/em> published a report by Natasha Bertrand (who has since left for a promotion at CNN), claiming the \u201cHunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say\u201d \u2014 buttressing the justification the tech overlords used to ban access to the story.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Politico<\/em> piece uncritically and obediently reported on a letter by former members of U.S. intelligence, which claimed the <em>Post<\/em> expos\u00e9 \u201chas all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d Most notable among the signatories of the letter were Jim Clapper, former director of National Intelligence; Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA; and John Brennan, former director of the CIA.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Buried in paragraph ten of the story was a quote saying, \u201cWe want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the <em>New York Post<\/em> \u2026 are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michael Hayden, it is worth noting in case this tale needs an extra shot of cynicism, serves on the board of NewsGuard \u2014 the supposedly \u201cneutral\u201d project that claims to fight untrustworthy and \u201cfake news\u201d but employs strictly establishment mainstays such as Hayden, Condoleezza Rice, and fellow Bush alum Tom Ridge.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Like the rest of the establishment media, NewsGuard misled the American public about the authenticity of the laptop. Its cofounder, Steve Brill, took to cable news to claim, apparently based on a hunch, that the laptop was \u201ca hoax, maybe even a hoax perpetrated by the Russians again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to September 2021, <em>Politico<\/em>\u2019s national correspondent, Ben Schreckinger, comes out with a book called <em>The<\/em> <em>Bidens: Inside the First Family\u2019s Fifty-Year Rise to Power<\/em>, which confirms via a third party that, shocker, the Laptop from Hell is legit.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But did Bertrand or <em>Politico<\/em> attach an addendum to any of their stories, or release a statement apologizing to their readers for pushing security state, Democrat Party propaganda at the moment it mattered most? Of course not.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>These are the most notable examples among many of legacy outlets quietly walking back totally unsubstantiated and false claims they made in their roles as \u201creporters\u201d during a time when true and clear information was so critical \u2014 when the American people were weighing who they wanted to vote for to be their next president.<\/p>\n<p>These so-called journalism outfits lied to and deceived the American people in a scramble to protect their preferred presidential candidate, and they continue to do so as they now insist on gaslighting about their past behavior \u2014 which is exactly why the American people, in turn, find them so loathsome.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But fortunately, ink stains. And as much as the legacy media try to pretend otherwise, their work during the most pivotal moment in the 2020 election, and in the months and years of follow-ups, will live on forever.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><em>Emma-Jo Morris is the Politics Editor at Breitbart News. Email her at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:ejmorris@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">ejmorris@breitbart.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow her\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmaJoNYC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">on Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times casually mentioned in an article published Wednesday that the Laptop from Hell is authentic \u2014 after calling the original New York Post report \u201cbaroque mythology\u201d at<\/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-1389568","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\/1389568","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=1389568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389568\/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=1389568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}