Premium: US Media quietly admits its Gupta Leaks, dismissed as fake news, was real
The story at the bottom of the page is required reading for anyone retaining illusions that all media strives for free and fair reporting. At a critical point in the 2020 US Election, instead of acting as Democracy's bulwark in the Court of Public Opinion, news organisations chose a side. The wrong one. Not just in the US.
When the New York Post published its expose' on incriminating documents found on Hunter Biden's abandoned computer, the US media establishment – led by The New York Times – wrote it off as fake news. Twitter even blocked the Post's account for two weeks. Now, 18 months later, all have quietly recanted.
At BizNews, the story reminded us of SA's Gupta Leaks, where explosive information was extracted from an abandoned computer. BizNews satirist SLR devoted a column to the subject and we republished coverage by the WSJ. Elsewhere, the media's distaste of the incumbent, trumped its ethics.
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