The Washington Post is finally decided to admit [1] what everybody already knew:
In a Sunday editorial, the Washington Post recalled how major social and news media platforms actively censored an October 2020 New York Post exclusive about the curious contents of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop. Dismissed at the time as “Russian disinformation,” Twitter and Facebook dampened the ability to share the story and media giants said that it wasn’t even a story, that the emails in the laptop could not be verified as coming from Biden.
The New York Times was the first media institution to admit the story was legitimate in mid-March. The Washington Post admitted the same last week.
But no major news outlet has admitted after this context that suppressing factual stories because they don’t fit a particular political narrative is wrong—until now.
“The Hunter Biden story is an opportunity for a reckonin the headline from the Washington Post editorial board, who, after explaining why many had good reason to be suspicious of the validity of the Biden story, also acknowledged that the “lesson learned from 2020 may well be that there’s also a danger of suppressing accurate and relevant stories.”
The fact of the matter is the mainstream media sat on this story for one reason, and one reason only: Orange man bad.
The hell with everything else but winning the election.
Once again, there’s a large number of people who until just recently have been chanting the everlasting mantra of “conspiracy theory”… All evidence to the contrary. Almost without exception such people should have known better, but held their silence because the political winds were blowing in their direction.
And here’s the thing, it’s nowhere near the first time the mainstream media has sat on a story because it didn’t bode well for the left and it’s power.
At this point, few questions remain:
Does this admission mean that the mainstream media is going to stop tilting left at every opportunity?
Doubtful.
Assuming that they manage to stop tilting left at every opportunity, will the trust in the mainstream media ever be re-established?
Again, doubtful.
Since the election in all likelihood, would have gone the other direction had the mainstream media not been sitting on this story, will there be legal consequences against those responsible? I can remember a time when Democrats used to refer to throwing elections as a crime.
Apparently, that’s only true however, when Democrats lose power.