{"id":188667,"date":"2021-03-03T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188667"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:01:04","slug":"3-times-the-media-buried-stories-that-couldve-brought-down-prominent-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-times-the-media-buried-stories-that-couldve-brought-down-prominent-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Times The Media Buried Stories That Could\u2019ve Brought Down Prominent Liberals"},"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\">24<\/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%2F3-times-the-media-buried-stories-that-couldve-brought-down-prominent-liberals%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=188667&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\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-456543804.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>One of the most chilling elements of the Harvey Weinstein scandal boiled down to two simple words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey knew.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Weinstein\u2019s predatory behavior was an open secret among celebrity circles. It wasn\u2019t just them, though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The producer\u2019s victims had plenty of reasons to remain silent, from fear of career repercussions to emotional distress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Why did some reporters do the same?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>NBC famously spiked a story that could have ended Weinstein\u2019s reign earlier than his 2017 downfall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Veteran journalist Kim Masters suggested, following Weinstein\u2019s downfall, that she had the goods on him more than 20 years ago when she confronted the producer with this devastating line:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/10\/20\/media\/kim-masters-harvey-weinstein-reliable-sources-podcast\/index.html\"><span>\u201cI heard you rape women<\/span><\/a><span>.\u201d Weinstein didn\u2019t deny it, she recalled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It isn\u2019t the only example of journalists knowing plenty but keeping information to themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The following cases chart a similar path, with a major figure behaving badly, but the journalists assigned to cover him failing to tell us the full story. The details eventually came out, but by then others had been hurt, needlessly, by these men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Conservatives have been screaming from the roof tops that the New York governor behaved very badly at the dawn of the pandemic. News outlets like The Daily Caller reported how the high-profile Democrat<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/18\/new-york-andrew-cuomo-releasing-book-coronavirus-response\/\"><span>shouldn\u2019t be anyone\u2019s idea of a COVID-19 hero<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cuomo issued an\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/05\/15\/new-york-coronavirus-reporting-nursing-home-deaths-undercounting\/\"><span>executive order<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0on March 25 ordering nursing homes and other long-term care facilities to accept patients from hospitals who had tested positive for the coronavirus. While he rescinded the policy on May 11, more than\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/07\/gov-cuomos-order-6000-coronavirus-patients-nursing-homes\/\"><span>6,400<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0nursing home patients\u00a0have died since the pandemic began after having been sent back to their care facility. More than 20,000 nursing home staffers were infected in March and April, according to the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/b29d0a5eb51a5aed21d5efe132c33374\"><span>Associated Press<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Conservatives railed against the Governor for month, after month, knowing his early pandemic decision to flood nursing homes with infected patients likely doomed thousands of elderly New Yorkers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Politicians couldn\u2019t be expected to nail every aspect of a once in a generation pandemic, but the hero worship lavished on Cuomo didn\u2019t mesh with reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All the while, Hollywood fawned over him. Howard Stern treated him like royalty and the press whispered how Cuomo could be summoned should Joe Biden falter in the presidential race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It gets worse, though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In recent weeks we\u2019ve learned not just about Cuomo\u2019s alleged sexual abuses but how he and his team bullied the press over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cuomo-staff-accused-of-incessant-bullying-constant-threats-local-tv-reporter-claims\"><span>Here\u2019s one example<\/span><\/a><span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018You have a vendetta against him don\u2019t you!\u2019 That was the last time I allowed someone connected to Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s administration to harass and manipulate me,\u201d former News10 reporter Lindsay Nielsen wrote in a statement on Sunday. \u201cIt was during one\u00a0of the many accusatory and threatening phone calls I received by his staff members that I realized this behavior was never going to stop. It was shortly thereafter that I decided to leave my job at News10.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>How many other reporters were treated in a similar fashion? Will they eventually share their stories, too?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Is there any chance local reporters had a good idea what was going on behind the scenes \u2026 and said nothing? If the average conservative knew the score, how could journalists miss it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alec Baldwin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>The combustible \u201c30 Rock\u201d alum has had more brushes with controversy, and the law, than most of his peers not named Sheen. He\u2019s feuded with shutterbugs, reporters and even flight attendants over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There\u2019s another part of the Baldwin story, though, that deserves attention. The progressive star has been bullying female journalists over the years, even though they\u2019ve mostly stayed silent about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mostly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2018 a trio of well-known journalists<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/alec-baldwin-journalists-share-horror-stories-i-hope-you-choke-to-death\/\"><span>shared their experiences<\/span><\/a> <span>with the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum on social media after Baldwin\u2019s arrest over a parking spot dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ABC White House correspondent Tara Palmeri said the star told her, \u201cI hope you choke to death\u201d when he saw her staking out his home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman said Baldwin blocked her on Twitter, but not before sending \u201chundreds of thousands of followers to berate me for\u2026writing about a fundraiser he\u2019d hosted in a way he didn\u2019t find satisfactory,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins said the actor called her a \u201chag\u201d after her report revealed he used multiple nannies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those revelations, though, never led<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/alec-baldwin-cancel-culture\/\"><span>to Baldwin\u2019s cancellation<\/span><\/a> <span>or even a full-throated reply from groups like Time\u2019s Up or NOW. Chances are if he trips up, again, these recollections could come back to haunt him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Or not. Baldwin\u2019s fiercely liberal posture may continue to protect him \u2026 from himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>We all know the late financier\u2019s hideous crimes involving underage girls. That wasn\u2019t publicly known for many years, partially thanks to a network\u2019s decision not to air a damning story about his alleged behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And we have a leaked \u201chot mic\u201d moment to thank for the revelation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The tape in question, released by James O\u2019Keefe of Project Veritas fame, features ABC News anchor Amy Robach\u00a0saying her<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/abc-amy-robach-jeffrey-epstein-hot-mic\"><span>bosses spiked a story<\/span><\/a> <span>that would have revealed Epstein\u2019s crimes several years before the law finally caught up with him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve had the story for three years\u2026 we would not put it on the air,\u201d Robach\u00a0said on the hot mic. \u201cIt was unbelievable what we had, Clinton, we had everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She kept talking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUm, first of all, I was told, who\u2019s Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story,\u201d Robach said on the video recording. \u201cThen, the Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn\u2019t be able to interview Kate and Will that we, that also quashed the story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI tried for three years to get it on to no avail. And now it\u2019s all coming out and it\u2019s like these new revelations and I freaking had all of it,\u201d Robach said. \u201cI\u2019m so pissed right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ABC claimed the report in question wasn\u2019t reliable enough to share. Could Robach, or any of the other journalists she worked on for the story, keep digging until that wasn\u2019t the case, taking ABC at its word? Perhaps they could have turned to other networks or colleagues to keep the story alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Epstein wasn\u2019t an openly partisan figure. He spent more time concocting his criminal operation than making political statements. Still, he donated heavily to Democrats over the years and palled around with former President Bill Clinton, a connection that could have damaged the ex-leader\u2019s name, at the very least.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In journalism\u2019s defense, bringing the hammer down on powerful men comes with consequences. Bullying. Intimidation. Possible lawsuits. It must be done with great care, with every fact double and triple checked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Would any of that stop a journalist from publishing a damning story about, say, President Donald Trump? Sen. Ted Cruz? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That answer may say it all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>member<\/em><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most chilling elements of the Harvey Weinstein scandal boiled down to two simple words. \u201cThey knew.\u201d Weinstein\u2019s predatory behavior was an open secret among celebrity circles. 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