The media's lack of interest in Biden scandals

 Jeffrey Lord:

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Contrast that media coverage with the media’s non-coverage of the Biden family scandals. Where is the New York Times coverage? Not there. The Washington Post? There but buried. Where is the liberal media obsession with getting to the bottom of all this?

Not there.

It takes NewsMax’s White House correspondent James Rosen (and full disclosure I am a NewsMax contributor) to ask Biden spokesman John Kirby about the now infamous “WhatsApp” message from Hunter Biden to China’s Harvest Fund Management director Henry Zhao. The message read:

Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,” the now-53-year-old said. “And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.

Kirby declined to answer, as did White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

But suffice to say, James Rosen’s hard hitting coverage is almost a stand alone in terms of the larger media.

My NewsBusters colleague Geoffrey Dickens has taken a look at the coverage now of the Trump indictment versus the coverage of the Biden scandals. He headlines this:

Nets Spend 491 Minutes On Trump Indictment, 0 Seconds On Biden Burisma Bribery

Geoffrey reports:

There’s also been a ‘two-tiered system’ of network coverage.

Back on June 8, two massive political stories broke, but ONLY one of them got covered by the broadcast networks. On June 8, former President Donald Trump was indicted by the Special Counsel in the classified documents case. That very same day, it was reported that President Joe Biden had allegedly received $5 million dollars from an executive of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, the same company in which his son Hunter was involved.

Over 12 days (June 8-June 21) the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) broadcast networks crammed their evening, morning and Sunday roundtable shows with a total of 491 minutes of coverage dedicated to the Trump indictment.

But how much did the Biden/Burisma alleged bribery scheme receive?

Zero seconds.

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The prediction here is — if they follow their familiar and recent patterns — the networks will continue to aggressively track the Trump case, drop the Hunter charges like a hot potato, and resume their censorship of the Biden family scandals.

Which is to say, whether it was the explosive news of the Iran-Contra affair 37 years ago, or the coverage of the Trump indictment today, the media then and now will devote endless hours of obsessive coverage to a Republican president and whatever misstep he is seen to have made.

But when it comes to a Democrat, in this case the shocking evidence from an investigating congressional committee that Hunter Biden, with his father literally at his side, was personally profiting from a bribery scheme using his father’s office and connections? Or that there had been a $5 million bribe to Biden from Ukraine’s Burisma? Well, we’re all essentially told by the media to just move along. Nothing to see here.

Thankfully there is the Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross and Andrew Kerr doing real journalism, headlining:

Hunter Biden was at Joe’s Delaware home the same day he used his dad as leverage in China biz text, laptop photos reveal

Ross and Kerr report:

Photographs on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop place him at his father's Wilmington, Delaware, residence on the day he invoked President Joe Biden's name in a text message, threatening his Chinese business partner to come down on him with their full weight if the business partner did not fulfill his ‘commitment.’

Yet this coverage by Rosen, Ross and Kerr are the lonely journalistic voices crying in the wilderness. It doesn’t come close to the constant, daily obsession the media had with Ronald Reagan’s Iran-Contra affair or now with Donald Trump’s targeting by the Department of Justice.
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It seems clear that much of the mainstream media is as corrupt as the Biden family is.  They have obvious prejudices that favor Democrats, burying stories that tell about Biden's corruption while they gang up in the attempts to criminalize Trump. 

See, also:

What Are They Hiding? Media and Democrats Step Up Lies On Biden Bribe Memo