Networks Continue Blackout of the Hunter Biden Laptop Story, Even After the NY Times Confirmed Its Authenticity – Opinion

Within the last month, New York TimesAccording to MRC/Newsbusters it was confirmed that Hunter Biden’s laptop story was true. Networks spent 52 seconds covering the event. This laptop story is true and important. Network news blackouts are a breach of duty.

Since the Hunter Biden laptop news was announced, it has been 36 days. The scandal has been ignored by networks since.

Together, they’ve provided 52 SECONDS worth of coverage on the scandal. Only 30 seconds was dedicated to it being dismissed. https://t.co/MYtviE7S3f

— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) April 21, 2022

Let’s go back to October 2020, when the New York PostDropped the laptop bombshell. Twitter swiftly censored it.

Most of the major media outlets also quickly dismissed the computer and its contents as “Russian disinformation,” and a letter signed by 50 members of the intelligence community came to a similar conclusion (although a close reading shows they hedged their bets by admitting they could not prove the assertion; they just were “deeply suspicious”).

Never forget:

The letter was signed by many Obama appointees, who have gone on to be mainstream media commentators. The letter was also signed by Leon Panetta, former director of CIA and Michael Hayden.

It was less than three weeks after the presidential election in 2020 that the laptop story first appeared. Many experts admit that the censoring might have had an impact on the outcome. The laptop had pornography and details about business transactions, which are now being investigated by the Justice Department. The NY Post’s Miranda Devine wrote an excellent (but hard-to-stomach) book about it called “Laptop From Hell.”

To find out the truth about #LaptopFromHell, read my bestselling book “Laptop From Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide”. https://t.co/ISQTdKsfcq

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) April 11, 2022

Mainstream media continued to be conspicuously silent, even after the book’s publication. However, everything changed when the New York Times on March 17, 2022—18 months after the fact—finally admitted that they had authenticated the laptop, and that indeed it was Hunter’s.

It was like the floodgates opened. Stories about the laptop began appearing everywhere that it had been ignored.

However, broadcast TV networks did not have this problem. They had more interesting things to discuss, according to the MRC study. With a combined nightly CBS-ABC-NBC viewership of up to 23 million people (stats are from a week in December 2020), that’s an awful lot of folks who will never be told the story.

What the coverage blackout amounts to is censorship, although it’s not as obvious as Twitter bans and Facebook deplatforms. By not covering a valid story, they’re keeping their audience in the dark, and depriving them of real news that affects their lives. It is yet another blemish on the discreditable mainstream media.