By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-20 22:31:46 | Updated at 2024-10-21 01:12:56
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NPR public editor ‘really uncomfortable’ with censorship of Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story — but gives her own outlet a pass
NY Post ^ | 10/15/2024 | Ariel Zilber
Posted on 10/20/2024 3:31:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin
National Public Radio’s public editor said she was “really uncomfortable” with large tech companies “censoring” The Post’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop — but gave her own outlet a free pass for declining to cover the story.
Kelly McBride, who has been NPR’s ombudsman since 2020, told The Wrap that tech firms such as X and Facebook were wrong to prevent users from sharing links to The Post’s revelations about the laptop, whose hard drive included emails linking the Biden family to a Ukrainian businessman.
“I was really uncomfortable with the tech companies censoring it,” McBride said. “Who are they to be the arbiters of truth?”
Kelly McBride has been NPR’s ombudsman since 2020.
Courtesy of Poynter Institute
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At the time, NPR also declined to cover the laptop story. Terence Samuels, who was NPR’s managing editor at the time, said his outlet didn’t “want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.”
McBride said that NPR couldn’t adequately cover the laptop story because The Post “didn’t make the entire laptop available.” She also accused The Post of “shaming and humiliating” Hunter Biden.
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