{"id":1418428,"date":"2022-04-04T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418428"},"modified":"2022-04-04T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:59:43","slug":"reckoning-wapo-admits-hunter-biden-story-teaching-media-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reckoning-wapo-admits-hunter-biden-story-teaching-media-a-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Reckoning\u2019: WaPo Admits Hunter Biden Story Teaching Media A Lesson"},"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\">20<\/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%2Freckoning-wapo-admits-hunter-biden-story-teaching-media-a-lesson%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=1418428&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-520756502.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Now that numerous news outlets have authenticated thousands of emails from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop \u2014 dismissed by many when it was first reported as Russian propaganda \u2014 an editorial by The Washington Post called for a \u201creckoning\u201d over the media\u2019s handling of the story.<\/p>\n<p>In a piece by the editorial board headlined \u201cThe Hunter Biden story is an opportunity for a reckoning,\u201d the writers cited news outlets \u2014 including their own paper \u2014 that initially dismissed the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor now, what\u2019s more compelling than the assorted accusations about the Bidens\u2019 behavior is this question: Why is confirmation of a story that first surfaced in the fall of 2020 emerging only now? When the New York Post published its blockbuster exclusive on the contents of a laptop said to have been abandoned at a Delaware repair shop by Hunter Biden, mainstream media organizations balked at running with the same narrative. Social media sites displayed even greater caution,\u201d the editorial board wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, for one, banned posting links to the original New York Post story.\u00a0Twitter went further, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/twitter-lifts-new-york-posts-suspension-after-lengthy-standoff-over-hunter-biden-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspending<\/a> the New York Post. Meanwhile, numerous outlets either ignored the story or called it Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post board said there was reason for caution, but added that \u201cdoesn\u2019t necessarily exonerate every action of every publication and platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis series of events has prompted allegations of a coverup, or at best a double standard in the treatment of conservative and liberal politicians by mainstream media and social media sites,\u201d it wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal paper also sought to explain its own dismissal of the story, admitting fault for shutting down what turned out to be a valid report. \u201cNone of these dilemmas have easy answers. The lesson learned from 2016 was evidently to err on the side of setting aside questionable material in the heat of a political campaign. The lesson learned from 2020 may well be that there\u2019s also a danger of suppressing accurate and relevant stories,\u201d the editorial board concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald, who had ripped the paper for ignoring the story, lauded the Post for addressing the media\u2019s shortcomings, while still saying it seemed self-serving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Editorial is filled with self-justifying caveats about why it was reasonable to have gotten the story so wrong. It downplays the full extent of the joint CIA\/media\/Big Tech lie,\u201d Greenwald wrote on Twitter. \u201cBut at least the Post now stands alone in admitting the fraud and that an accounting is due.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs welcome as it is, much of what\u2019s in the Post\u2019s Editorial is arrogant ad hoc rationalizing. They think a story is only confirmed once the NYT &#038; WP say so \u2013 lol. The evidence of the archive\u2019s authenticity was overwhelming from the start. Many of us staked our careers on it,\u201d Greenwald wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that numerous news outlets have authenticated thousands of emails from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop \u2014 dismissed by many when it was first reported as Russian propaganda \u2014 an editorial by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"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-1418428","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\/1418428","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418428\/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=1418428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}