It was a week of big GOP hearings, so it was a week of media “professionals” trying to avoid them. The Washington Post avoided them both — the House Weaponization Subcommittee hearing on Big Tech censorship and the House Oversight hearing with the IRS whistleblowers on the Bidens.
Dan Schneider of Free Speech America discusses the breaking news out of the hearing on Big Tech collusion with government agencies. It turns out that the FBI informed Twitter that the Hunter Biden laptop contents were authentic, but wanted that to not be discussed. Breitbart’s Emma-Jo Morris, who was at the New York Post in the decisive days of censorship in 2020, cited the Media Research Center poll finding that 45 percent of Biden voters in seven swing states were not aware of the Hunter Biden issues before the election was over.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell attempted to claim “The hearing was supposed to be about censorship, but it wasn’t. Since no one could come up with any examples of government censorship.” He was preposterous.
Both ABC and NPR decided the Republican-led hearings aren’t as newsworthy as sports bras and rainstorms. They ran many hours of live coverage of the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6, but can’t even notice these hearings exist. News is defined as what Democrats want to talk about.
While they refused to report on IRS whistleblowers testifying, The Washington Post made sure to place its typical anti-Trump story on the front page on Thursday, headlined “Jan. 6 probes point to charges: TRUMP’S ROLE LOOMS LARGE.” They never stop putting that story on Page One.
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