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.
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.
“I was really uncomfortable with the tech companies censoring it,” McBride said.
“Who are they to be the arbiters of truth?” In April, Uri Berliner, who left NPR after publishing an essay critical of the outlet for its left-wing bias, faulted his former employer for ignoring the laptop story.
“It was a tabloid story.” McBride’s comments were published on the fourth anniversary of The Post’s exclusive report, which found that Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm.
The introduction was made less than a year before Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian government officials into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, Burisma, which was paying Hunter Biden up to $50,000 per month for taking up a board position.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/15/media/npr-editor-slams-tech-firms-censoring-posts-hunter-biden-laptop/
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