Media suddenly forced to cover Hunter Biden scandal after spending years avoiding the explosive story
'The story is legitimate. And true journalists know it,' Steve Krakauer said
By Brian Flood , Joseph A. Wulfsohn Fox News
Published August 15, 2023 5:00pm EDT
The Hunter Biden scandal is a story that for years the legacy media either systemically downplayed or completely ignored. Critics have wondered what would be the boiling point for the media to finally take the controversy seriously. Perhaps that moment has come.
On Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss – who had been overseeing the DOJ's investigation into President Biden's son since 2018 – as special counsel, marking an unprecedented chapter in the legal woes plaguing the White House. Coverage that the special counsel appointment has ignited is a stunning pivot from how many news organizations have portrayed the family drama.
The Washington Post’s editorial board, for example, declared on Saturday that Hunter Biden "shouldn’t get special treatment," telling readers that critics of the plea agreement he previously made with the DOJ before it fell apart in court "might have been right" all along that it was a "sweetheart deal."
But in June, the Post editorial board called the deal "justified," saying the "sitting president’s son being held accountable for underpaying his taxes illustrates that no one is above the law in the U.S. system."
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