Is Free Speech Under Attack in this Country?

nsacpi said:
The New York Post’s front-page article about Hunter Biden on Wednesday was written mostly by a staff reporter who refused to put his name on it, two Post employees said.

Bruce Golding, a reporter at the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid since 2007, did not allow his byline to be used because he had concerns over the article’s credibility, the two Post employees said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.

Many Post staff members questioned whether the paper had done enough to verify the authenticity of the hard drive’s contents, said five people with knowledge of the tabloid’s inner workings. Staff members also had concerns about the reliability of its sources and its timing, the people said.

The article named two sources: Stephen K. Bannon, the former adviser to President Trump now facing federal fraud charges, who was said to have made the paper aware of the hard drive last month; and Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, who was said to have given the paper “a copy” of the hard drive on Oct. 11.

Mr. Giuliani said he chose The Post because “either nobody else would take it, or if they took it, they would spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out.”

Top editors met on Oct. 11 to discuss how to use the material provided by Mr. Giuliani. The group included the tabloid veteran Colin Allan, known as Col; Stephen Lynch, The Post’s editor in chief; and Michelle Gotthelf, the digital editor in chief, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. Mr. Allan, who was The Post’s editor in chief from 2001 to 2016 and returned last year as an adviser, urged his colleagues to move quickly, the person said.

As deadline approached, editors pressed staff members to add their bylines to the story — and at least one aside from Mr. Golding refused, two Post journalists said.

The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have reported that they could not independently verify the data in the Post article, which included hedging language, referring at one point to an email “allegedly sent” to Hunter Biden.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/business/media/new-york-post-hunter-biden.html
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Paper of record had to explain to us why it was propaganda
 
nsacpi said:
Afaik there is no controversy about the accuracy of the Times story.

The Post could address much of the controversy surrounding its story by releasing the metadata for the relevant email (s).

It is not a hard thing to do. The reluctance to do this, combined with its reputation for being a rag, combined with the reservations expressed by some of its own editors and reporters suggests that this is more likely than not disinformation and propaganda. The sources for their information are Giuliani and Bannon.
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Nsacpi pushing deza
 
goldfly said:
the guy who tries to say others have lost their minds and says others don't care about facts and so on and so on


thinks this story checks out

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I forget how dumb this loser is
 
Many on here have said that Hunter's laptop is a nothingburger. If that's true why is Biden's team trying to censor it?
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Tapate50 said:
The hooker and blow pics are already commonly circulated
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There’s a healthy discussion to be had about the other things requested of the Twitter team, but I will die on the hill that it’s reasonable to request they remove lewd photos of Biden’s family.
 
mqt said:
There’s a healthy discussion to be had about the other things requested of the Twitter team, but I will die on the hill that it’s reasonable to request they remove lewd photos of Biden’s family.
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It doesn’t seem like anyone is interested in a discussion at all. You guys would rather accept the govt treating it’s citizens like the ccp does than grow a pair.
 
Tapate50 said:
It doesn’t seem like anyone is interested in a discussion at all. You guys would rather accept the govt treating it’s citizens like the ccp does than grow a pair.
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The orange man hurt them. They are willing to give it all up to not see him again.
 
Tapate50 said:
It doesn’t seem like anyone is interested in a discussion at all. You guys would rather accept the govt treating it’s citizens like the ccp does than grow a pair.
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Personally I find it hard to start a nuanced discussion about the topic when the other side is essentially declaring that the Constitution has been violated unilaterally by Democrats. I think there’s a broader conversation to be had about things like the cozy relationship between Twitter and the government, who had what access/power, what the conversations looked like, who all was participating, etc. But from where I’m sitting, everybody has just made up their minds that not only is this ethically concerning but that it must be the worst-possible doomsday scenario.
 
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