In a surprising op-ed published Tuesday, NPR senior business editor Uli Berliner says his news organization “turned a blind eye” to the Hunter Biden laptop story. Regardless, he acknowledged that the laptop was certainly newsworthy and that it “revealed its relevance to the incident.” A corrupt world that spreads its influence. ”
Berliner also said that NPR did not acknowledge its “misjudgment” when it turned out that the laptop was in fact real and not a Russian hoax as claimed by 51 former intelligence officials. He also admitted that.
Berliner writes in his text: published In Free Press:
In October 2020, the New York Post published an explosive report about Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop at a computer shop in Delaware, containing emails about his sordid business dealings. was. With the election just weeks away, NPR turned a blind eye. His NPR news editor at the time explained the idea this way: “I don’t want to waste my time on articles that aren’t really articles, and I don’t want to waste my listeners’ and readers’ time on articles that aren’t really articles.” It’s just a distraction.
But it was not a pure diversion or the product of Russian disinformation, as dozens of former and current intelligence officials have suggested. This laptop did indeed belong to Hunter Biden. Its contents revealed his connections to a corrupt world of multi-million dollar influence mongers and the impact this could have on his father.
This laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct to follow the trailblazers of trending news was being crushed. During a meeting with a colleague, I heard one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists say he was glad we didn’t pursue the laptop issue because it could potentially help Trump. .
Berliner also blamed his own news organization, saying that when the report and the laptop were confirmed to be genuine, NPR did not acknowledge it.
“When the key facts in the Post report were confirmed and the emails were independently verified about a year and a half later, we may have acknowledged our error in judgment. “We did not make the difficult choice of transparency,” he concluded.
In his article, he lamented NPR’s shift to the left over time and the rise of NPR’s advocacy efforts since former President Donald Trump was elected in 2016.
He also criticized the media’s coverage of the Russia collusion hoax and accused him of pulling the wagon on the hoax’s mastermind, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), in Congress. He is currently running for California State Senate.
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