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Now that Trump is going to cancel funding for this radical left group of
course they are now falling on their knives.
Fuck them all.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-chief-admits-dismissing-hunter-biden-laptop-story-mistake
'NPR CEO Katherine Maher conceded during her congressional testimony on Wednesday that her organization missed the mark in its lack of serious
coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 election.
Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger were grilled by House Republicans on the
newly formed Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee
regarding accusations of biased news coverage backed by federal funding.
"I do want to say that NPR acknowledges we were mistaken in failing to
cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner," Maher
told Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas.
She later reiterated "we made a mistake" about not covering the laptop
in a separate exchange with Rep. Brian Jack, R-Ga. Maher was named CEO
of NPR in 2024, so she wasn't with the taxpayer-backed outlet at the
time the story first broke.
NPR, PBS CHIEFS SET TO CLASH WITH GOP LAWMAKERS DURING DOGE SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING
Katherine Maher DOGE hearing
NPR CEO Katherine Maher admitted "we were mistaken" in not aggressively covering the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020. (Andrew Harnik/Getty
Images)
The New York Post's bombshell reporting on the laptop was released in
the heat of the 2020 election where then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden
faced off against President Donald Trump. The story shed light on Hunter Biden's overseas business practices and his father's possible
involvement, and the laptop also had shocking videos and photos of drug
use and lewd acts.
Many mainstream news outlets disparaged the story at the time and even credulously repeated suggestions the laptop was a Russian disinformation operation. At the time, NPR public editor Kelly McBride addressed a
listener's question about the news outlet's blackout of coverage. She
said the Post's reporting had "many, many red flags," including its
potential ties to Russia, and the assertions within the story weren't significant.
"We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories,
and we don't want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories
that are just pure distractions," NPR managing editor Terence Samuel
told McBride. "And quite frankly, that's where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event, and we decided to treat it that way."
TRUMP SAYS HE'D LOVE TO YANK FUNDING FOR NPR, PBS, WOULD BE ‘HONORED’ TO SEE IT END
The New York Times and The Washington Post both verified Hunter Biden's
laptop after dismissing the New York Post's bombshell reporting during
the 2020 presidential election.
NPR famously said, "We don't want to waste our time on stories that are
not really stories" in response to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
(Getty images | New York Post)
In a stunning tell-all essay published last April, then-veteran NPR
editor Uri Berliner recalled the attitude of his liberal colleagues to
the laptop revelations.
"The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of
following a hot story lead was being squelched," Berliner wrote. "During
a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump."
"When the essential facts of the Post’s reporting were confirmed and the emails verified independently about a year and a half later, we could
have fessed up to our misjudgment. But, like Russia collusion, we didn’t
make the hard choice of transparency," he continued.
NPR EDITOR REBUKES OWN OUTLET'S COVERAGE OF HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP, COVID
LAB LEAK AND RUSSIAGATE
Uri Berliner knocks NPR CEO Katherine Maher
Longtime editor Uri Berliner stunned the media industry last year when
he blew the whistle on liberal bias at NPR. (Fox News Digital/Getty
Images)
During her exchange with Cloud, Maher also acknowledged the legitimacy
of the Wuhan lab-leak theory by the CIA after NPR previously dismissed speculation about the COVID pandemic's origins at the time.
Maher remained adamant that NPR is a "nonpartisan" news organization
despite her admissions
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