Utopia Talk / Politics / Politico killed anti-Biden stories

Rugian Member	Fri Jan 24 12:05:22 Ex-Politico reporters reveal editors quashed, slow-walked negative Biden stories 'with no explanation' Two former Politico reporters spoke candidly about efforts made by their bosses to either slow-walk or completely quash their reporting on the Biden family during their time at the news outlet. Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri, now journalists for Axios and Puck respectively, reflected on their time at Politico on Palmeri's "Somebody's Gotta Win" podcast. Caputo called out Politico's "ill-fated headline" downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop scandal during the 2020 election. "I mean, Politico, my former employer, and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors," Caputo said in the exchange, which was shared Thursday on YouTube. "I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least." Caputo was referencing Politico's report, which had the headline "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say," on the open letter signed by 51 intelligence officials declaring that the material from Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the earmarks of a Russian intelligence operation." The report came days after The New York Post published its bombshell reporting about the laptop in October 2020. Caputo also shed light on a report he had written in 2019 that stemmed from opposition research from a rival Democratic campaign of then-candidate Joe Biden regarding a "tax lien" of Hunter's pertaining to his work at Ukrainian energy company Burisma. "And I wrote what would have been a classic story saying, you know, ‘The former vice president’s son was slapped with a big tax lien for the period of time that he worked for this controversial Ukrainian oil concern, or natural gas concern, which is haunting his father on the campaign trail.' That story was killed by the editors,' Caputo said. "And they gave no explanation for that either. So that the general experience- obviously the public doesn't know about those things." When reached out by Fox News Digital, Caputo provided video showing the original Word document created May 8, 2019 of his tax lien reporting on Hunter Biden. Palmeri similarly shared an experience at Politico regarding the "serious reporting" she had done on then-President Biden's son. She had broken the story of Hunter Biden's gun incident that led to a felony charge for lying about his drug use on a gun form. "I spent three months on it, I went to the laptop shop, and I did all of the reporting in Delaware, and I did all of that. But yeah it had, it had to be like much- it had to be 100% nailed down," Palmeri told Caputo. "I had everything, you know, the police reports… I’m a solid reporter. But I do wonder if it could have, if it would have been published a little quicker if it was a different type of story." Speaking with Fox News Digital, Palmeri expanded on how her bosses dragged their feet before running her story. "I certainly had to push very hard to get that reporting published. Like, it was a constant, 'Hey, when are we going to do this? Hey, when are we going to get this out there? Hey, when we're going to do this?' Because it was so difficult. Like it was kind of a known feeling that like, it's gonna be difficult to report stuff that's really tough on the Biden administration and family. It's just like a culture." Palmeri told Fox News Digital. "And I think when the culture is that a reporter has to push so hard that it just creates a feeling that there's not an interest in that type of reporting. And ultimately, you know, we work to be published and to get our editors to support our work." Palmeri said she first obtained the police report shortly after Biden's inauguration in late January 2021, but her story wasn't published until late March 2021. "I just think if it was a Trump kid, it would have been published much sooner," Palmeri said. "I just had to work really hard to like- you're like 'Hey, what's going on with the story? Hey, what's going on with the story? Like, what's going on with the story?' We gave the White House a lot of time, like a week or so to respond. I don't know if that would have been the case for a Trump story." The former Politico journalist went on to cite the "honeymoon phase" of the Biden administration as being a factor behind the slowed pace of her story. "I think a lot of people there, including reporters, wanted to get on the good side of the new administration," Palmeri said. "And so I could understand the reluctance to put out a piece like that within the first few months." http://www...en-stories-with-no-explanation
obaminated Member	Fri Jan 24 12:40:44 And liberal news outlets online and on legacy media wonder why their ratings are in decline and trust in them is at an all time low.
Rugian Member	Fri Jan 24 12:41:27 You don't hate the media nearly enough. They are the enemies of the people.
obaminated Member	Fri Jan 24 12:52:38 Now we gotta investigate what kinda porn are they into? BBC? Nonconsent consent? Incest? Milf? Bit tits? The world has a right to know!
Im better then you 2012 UP Football Champ	Fri Jan 24 14:09:10 None of these "liberal outlets" reported on JD Vance Dossier or video of Don Jr doing cocaine infront of his Dad.
obaminated Member	Fri Jan 24 14:16:32 http://www...jr-cocaine-inauguration-video/
obaminated Member	Fri Jan 24 14:18:51 And what exactly do you know of the dossier ibty?
Im better then you 2012 UP Football Champ	Fri Jan 24 15:22:15 I was referring to this video of Don Jr. http://www.youtube.com/shorts/H373BdYEhDE
Im better then you 2012 UP Football Champ	Fri Jan 24 15:23:04 I know the dossier was basic and honest evaluation of JD Vance by Trump team.
Sam Adams Member	Fri Jan 24 15:50:41 I'm so shocked that the left wing media would do shady left wing shit. Shocked i say.
obaminated Member	Sat Jan 25 01:57:42 Wow. So trump Jr rubbed his teeth and that equals coke? Vs a fucking psycho like hunter who fucked whores, held guns to their heads and was drug tested,? Keep arguing buddy. You'll not lose the middle class one day.
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