The hypocritical major-media plot in advance to suppress The Post’s Hunter Biden reporting
By Post Editorial Board
May 5, 2023 3:55pmRemember when journalists were supposed to speak truth to power, no matter the cost?
Those were the days, huh?
In 1971, The New York Times printed an internal study the United States conducted about our failures in the Vietnam War.
These Pentagon Papers were leaked by a RAND analyst who had access to the classified documents, Daniel Ellsberg.
This was incredibly controversial.
The Times was sued by the Nixon administration and accused of treason. But the paper held its ground.
Steven Spielberg even mythologized the episode in “The Post,” which weirdly was about the second newspaper to publish the Pentagon Papers — the Washington Post — because he needed a part for Meryl Streep.
For decades, the media held to this “Pentagon Papers standard” — that it didn’t matter HOW information was acquired, as long as it was true.
Whatever Edward Snowden’s motives, for instance, it was more important to know about the NSA’s spy program.
That is, until Democrats looked bad.
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