{"id":1423525,"date":"2022-04-07T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423525"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:29:56","slug":"i-dont-find-it-interesting-journalist-coldly-dismisses-students-question-on-hunter-biden-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-find-it-interesting-journalist-coldly-dismisses-students-question-on-hunter-biden-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Don\u2019t Find It Interesting\u2019: Journalist Coldly Dismisses Student\u2019s Question On Hunter Biden Laptop"},"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\">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%2Fi-dont-find-it-interesting-journalist-coldly-dismisses-students-question-on-hunter-biden-laptop%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=1423525&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>The Atlantic\u2019s Anne Applebaum dismissed a question about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop during a University of Chicago conference, video posted Wednesday to Twitter shows.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking at the university\u2019s \u201cDisinformation and the Erosion of Democracy\u201d conference, freshman student Daniel Schmidt asked Applebaum about the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, in 2020, you wrote \u2018those outside the Fox News bubble do not, of course, need to learn any of the stuff about Hunter Biden,\u2019 referring to his laptop, of course,\u201d Schmidt began. \u201cA poll later found out that if voters knew about the contents of the laptop, 16% of Joe Biden voters would\u2019ve acted differently. Of course, we know a few weeks ago The New York Times confirmed that the content is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think the media acted inappropriately when they instantly dismissed Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop as Russia disinformation and what can we learn from that in ensuring that what we label as disinformation is truly disinformation and not reality?\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH The Atlantic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anneapplebaum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@anneapplebaum<\/a> refuse to answer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealDSchmidt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealDSchmidt<\/a>\u2018s\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25 question about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop during <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UChicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UChicago<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDisinformation and the Erosion of Democracy\u201d conference! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1OgXBBiiI0\">pic.twitter.com\/1OgXBBiiI0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Chicago Thinker (@ThinkerChicago) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThinkerChicago\/status\/1511839490356228098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy problem with Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop I think is totally irrelevant,\u201d Applebaum said. \u201cI mean it\u2019s not whether it\u2019s disinformation or, I mean, I didn\u2019t think the Hunter Bidens business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the United States, so I don\u2019t find it to be interesting, that would be my problem with that as a main news story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Applebaum wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/10\/smears-against-biden-dont-need-make-any-sense\/616824\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 piece<\/a> that a new cache of emails purportedly belonging to Hunter\u2019s business partner Bevan Cooney was, \u201con the grand scale of misdeeds committed by politicians and their relatives,\u201d the \u201ckind of thing [that] barely registers.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/03\/chris-christie-calls-out-new-york-times-washington-post-misreporting-hunter-bidens-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Had It Wrong\u2019: Chris Christie Calls Out The New York Times And Washington Post Over Misreporting Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applebaum alleged the email story was a Republican attempt to \u201cundermine Joe Biden\u2019s most important electoral asset: the impression, shared by even those who don\u2019t like the former Vice President, that he is a fundamentally decent person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then alleged Fox News and other \u201cright-wing conspiracy bubble\u201d members will \u201cdip into the email caches to keep their followers focused on an alternate reality in which Joe Biden is a secret oligarch, his son is an important figure in the Chinese mafia, and LOL nothing matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/17\/new-york-post-editorial-board-times-hunter-biden-laptop-confirm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Post<\/a> broke the story of the laptop in October 2020 after Hunter Biden abandoned it at a Delaware repair shop a year prior. Content on the laptop revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/06\/gop-probe-hunter-biden-james-biden-financial-transactions-flagged\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">international business deals<\/a> that mentioned Biden. In one <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/washington-post-daily-caller-news-foundation-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">email verified<\/a> by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Burisma advisor Vadym Pozharsky thanks Hunter for \u201cinviting\u201d him \u201cto DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The story was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/13\/fec-dismisses-complaint-twitter-censoring-hunter-biden-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suppressed<\/a> on Twitter less than a month before the election, with several outlets calling it \u201cunsubstantiated\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/22\/npr-wont-cover-hunter-biden-laptop-story-waste-readers-time-pure-distractions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ignoring<\/a> it.<\/p>\n<p>Both The New York Times and The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/17\/nyt-admits-authenticity-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admitted<\/a> the authenticity of the laptop in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic\u2019s Anne Applebaum dismissed a question about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop during a University of Chicago conference, video posted Wednesday to Twitter shows.While speaking at the university\u2019s \u201cDisinformation and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"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-1423525","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\/1423525","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423525\/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=1423525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}