{"id":875991,"date":"2021-10-13T16:44:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=875991"},"modified":"2021-10-13T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:44:37","slug":"analysis-journalists-struggle-to-speak-truth-to-power-in-biden-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-journalists-struggle-to-speak-truth-to-power-in-biden-era\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: Journalists Struggle To \u2018Speak Truth to Power\u2019 in Biden Era"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fanalysis-journalists-struggle-to-speak-truth-to-power-in-biden-era%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=875991&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 readability=\"29.176470588235\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Mainstream media outlets continue to ignore Hunter Biden corruption scandal<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/biden-hunter-736x510-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/biden-hunter-e1624389945232.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/biden-hunter-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/biden-hunter-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/biden-hunter-708x491.jpg 708w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 October 13, 2021 4:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"114.24921630094\">\n<p>Professional journalists pride themselves in preserving democracy by &#8220;speaking truth to power,&#8221; at least when Republicans are in charge. Their enthusiasm for public accountability wanes significantly when Democrats hold power.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden, for example.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> analysis, journalists are struggling to &#8220;speak truth to power&#8221; in the Biden era. For example, most mainstream media outlets have refused to cover the burgeoning Hunter Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/emails-reveal-hunter-bidens-relationship-with-shadowy-chinese-tycoon\/\">corruption scandal<\/a>, which would be front-page news if his dad weren&#8217;t a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Going against the grain,&nbsp;<em>Insider&nbsp;<\/em>dared to report on the First Son&#8217;s problematic foreign entanglements. The story&#8217;s headline, however, is so riddled with caveats it reads essentially as an apology to readers for the sin of criticizing a prominent Democrat:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Hunter Biden isn&#8217;t Trump, but what&#8217;s he&#8217;s up to is bad and deserves your attention\u2014even if you hate Fox News.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Republicans have certainly pounced on the younger Biden&#8217;s business dealings in an attempt to cast doubt on his father&#8217;s integrity,&#8221; writes <em>Insider<\/em> correspondent Mattathias Schwartz. &#8220;The ferociously partisan nature of the issue, in turn, has made it easy for the mainstream media to effectively dismiss the entire Hunter imbroglio as a figment of the GOP&#8217;s fevered imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed. The <em>New York Times<\/em> even went so far as to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/new-york-times-deletes-unsubstantiated-claim-on-biden-laptop-story\/\">describe<\/a> reporting on the contents of Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop as &#8220;unsubstantiated.&#8221; (Fact check: Those reports are extensively substantiated.) In the eyes of the mainstream media, Republicans are always &#8220;pouncing&#8221; in a &#8220;ferociously partisan nature,&#8221; which gives the media license to ignore them. Democrats, meanwhile, are reluctant to pounce on GOP scandals and averse to ferocious partisanship. Also, there&#8217;s no Democratic equivalent to Fox News, which is partisan, unlike the studiously objective CNN.<\/p>\n<p>In the manner of a parent patiently explaining right and wrong to a stubborn toddler, Schwartz implores Democratic supporters to care about blatant corruption. At the very least, he pleads, they should care about the troubling lack of transparency and accountability surrounding Hunter Biden, who has been &#8220;working to unwind&#8221; his ownership stake in a Chinese investment firm for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/hunter-biden-still-holds-10-184000359.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost a year<\/a>, and plans to sell his amateur paintings for as much as $500,000 each to buyers whose identities won&#8217;t be disclosed to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This doesn&#8217;t approach Trump-level corruption,&#8221; the journalist writes, cautiously. &#8220;But it still matters.&#8221; Walter Shaub, a fierce Trump critic who served as director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, correctly described Hunter Biden&#8217;s plan to sell exorbitantly priced art to secret donors as &#8220;objectively bad&#8221; and argued that &#8220;\u2018less of a grifter than Trump&#8217; cannot become the standard&#8221; for evaluating corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Daily Mail<\/em>&nbsp;on Wednesday published a damning&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10070093\/Joe-Biden-Hunters-shared-bank-accounts-make-president-target-FBI-probe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> that suggests Joe Biden could become entangled in the FBI probe into Hunter&#8217;s finances. The report included copies of emails indicating the father and son held shared bank accounts and paid each other&#8217;s bills, as well as commentary from law enforcement experts. &#8220;The information available publicly is very worrisome, particularly in the areas of corruption,&#8221; John Cassara, a former U.S. intelligence officer and Treasury special agent who specialized in money laundering investigations, told the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, CNN&#8217;s Brian Stelter was reminiscing about the &#8220;splashy&#8221; HBO premiere he <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/brian-stelter-caviar-champagne\/\">attended<\/a> Tuesday night, where he downed caviar and champagne while mingling with celebrities before he decamped to an after party that featured a full orchestra. &#8220;Everyone will have different moments that feel like life is returning to a pre-Covid normal, and this night was one of those moments for me,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Mainstream media outlets continue to ignore Hunter Biden corruption scandal  Andrew Stiles \u2022 October 13, 2021 4:40 pm Professional journalists pride themselves in preserving &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-875991","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\/875991","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875991\/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=875991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}