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Yes, when two people disagree, one side commonly thinks the other side's argument is nonsense. But, as you admit you don't know the truth of the story, it is impossible to tell whose side is right. Maybe the editors do just think it is garbage journalism. Or maybe the editors are just protecting "their guy".
It isn't impossible to tell who is right or we would never know anything. Maybe Ted Cruz's dad assassinated JFK or maybe he didn't. Who knows, both sides say the other side is nonsense.
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Please show me a high-profile investigative piece from the mainstream media against Biden.
It was the New York Times that originally broke the Biden Ukraine story back in 2015. Recent iterations of it are mostly just rehashing the original article. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-u...
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It's also the kind of story that can break someone's journalistic career. Even Fox News wouldn't run the story because it wasn't supported by facts. And last I heard, there still has been no concrete evidence of wrongdoing. Tucker Carlson claims that his evidence "got lost in the mail". In the age of the internet, they didn't snap any photos of this so-called proof? There is no "there" there. Just a bunch of internet…
UPS confirms that the package was lost: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ups-confirms-mystery-tucker-ca...
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Does this explain why the tried to stop him from publishing elsewhere? Relevant section: >Worse, The Intercept editors in New York, not content to censor publication of my article at the Intercept, are also demanding that I not exercise my separate contractual right with FLM regarding articles I have written but which FLM does not want to publish itself. Under my contract, I have the right to publish any articles FLM…
Did you see them make that demand? Their wording that he published implied that it would be detrimental to The Intercept, which would be a fair claim. I think you can suggest it was careful pressure or negotiation, but it didn't read as a demand to me.
You have to read this knowing there is an existing contractural agreement that Glenn is expressly allowed to publish elsewhere if they do not publish. So the only basis to stop him from doing that would be to allege it would be “damaging” if he did.
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> Did you read his story? It's good, it's serious I have read it, and it's not good. It is an example of the worst aspects of pearl-clutching, can-you-imagine-what-this-means, ignore-the-actual-facts tendencies of the media today. He starts from a ludicrous premise and then doubles down on the ramifications, all without actually addressing the question of whether or not it is true. You certainly don't question the su…
At this point the emails/texts have been authenticated by many people who were actually on the email chains, and people who were direct recipients of the text messages. We are about a week past the point where people were falsely claiming this was disinformation, and several days past the point of any credible claim that the emails are not authentic. We are actually, as of tonight, at the point where anonymous Justic…
This is like saying that one spy has caught another spy red-handed because the first spy has a letter that says "I done it."
There is nothing that links the computer to Biden, beyond the fact that it contains some emails (which were known to have been stolen), and other emails which appear to have been doctored. The doctored emails are the ones alleging malfeasance. To accept that Biden owns the computer is to accept that he flew all the way across the country to hand deliver his laptop to a blind technician who miraculously recognized him.
> We are actually, as of tonight, at the point where anonymous Justice Department sources are alleging that the Biden’s have been and continues to be under investigation for money laundering since 2019.
Yes, anonymous sources. The funny thing about these anonymous sources is that, you see, they're anonymous. Which means they could be anyone and, let's face it, they probably are anyone, even an anyone unrelated to the Justice Department.
> We are about a week past the point where people were falsely claiming this was disinformation, and several days past the point of any credible claim that the emails are not authentic.
No one outside of the alt-right media is claiming any authenticity for this "scandal". Even Fox News is like "Nah-uh. Nope. This is fishy as hell, and I once ate a whole fish stinking and raw!"
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#778Glenn had a 3 hour long conversation on a podcast a few days ago where he laid out the problem really well: Journalists have essentially become socialites. They don't want to publish articles that will rock the boat, because the people they are friends with are the ones that own that boat, invite them to parties, and are a part of their friend groups. The reporting around this story has been absolutely unbelievable t…
It's also the kind of story that can break someone's journalistic career. Even Fox News wouldn't run the story because it wasn't supported by facts. And last I heard, there still has been no concrete evidence of wrongdoing. Tucker Carlson claims that his evidence "got lost in the mail". In the age of the internet, they didn't snap any photos of this so-called proof? There is no "there" there. Just a bunch of internet…
Run what story? Fox news has been covering the hard drive since it was released.
And yes, no concrete evidence of wrong doing, but if you read Glenn's email, he clearly states that "something smells rotten" and the editors response is "we won't even allow pointed questions about Biden".
Glenn is offering the Biden camp more benefit of the doubt than the MSM has offered Trump when random allegations arise.
That's the issue - the MSM holds up "journalistic integrity" when it suits their political candidate. That's not integrity at all. That's just corruption of the what journalism is supposed to be.
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#779The response on HN to this is a disgrace.
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#780It's clear that Hunter Biden's data was compromised. The data that I have seen is definitely real and definitely his. The provenance of this data is unclear. It's also a common technique to compromise data and doctor a couple of documents to slip in among-st the real ones. My opinion is that it's some kind of a cloud service hack given the type of information that was compromised (video, photos, sms logs, emails.)
I have seen scant little coverage of this in the mainstream, or even alternative, media. Why can't they address what is verifiable in this story and add a codicil that some of it may be false?