NPR Editor Details How Outlet Dismissed Hunter Biden Laptop Story To Help Biden Win Election

Uri Berliner is a business editor and reporter for National Public Radio, a publication that your tax dollars help fund. Last week, Berliner penned an essay for Bari Weiss' news site The Free Press in which he criticized his superiors at NPR.

Specifically, Berliner claims his bosses ignored the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election at the risk of spreading a story that could help Donald Trump win the election.

"The laptop was newsworthy," Berliner wrote. "But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched."

Berliner details that the managing editor for the site said that the outlet had no interest in "[wast[ing] our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions."

Of course, the story was not a "distraction" Or "Russian propaganda," as the media-generated narrative in 2020 claimed. The story was accurate.

Big Tech was the most egregious offender in the suppression of the story. Facebook and Twitter barred the sharing of the original report, via the New York Post, on their platforms.

Those editorial decisions changed the election. Literally. At least one in six Biden voters say they would have changed their vote had they been aware of the report's validity.

However, the corporate press aided in the quest to bury the report from the proverbial zeitgeist. NPR is not alone. 

The headquarters for National Public Radio, or NPR, are seen in Washington, DC. (Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Last month, former New York Times opinion editor Adam Rubenstein penned an article for The Atlantic that explained how Times employees failed to fulfill their goal of being "journalistic, rather than activist" ahead of the election.

He referenced how "journalists" did not want to report on the Hunter Biden laptop story out of fear it would hinder Joe Biden's election efforts.

"Was it truly ‘unsubstantiated,’ as the paper kept saying?" Rubenstein asked, rhetorically. "At the time, it had been substantiated, however unusually, by Rudy Giuliani. 

"Many of my colleagues were clearly worried that lending credence to the laptop story could hurt the electoral prospects of Joe Biden and the Democrats. But starting from a place of party politics and assessing how a particular story could affect an election isn’t journalism."

Not until 18 months later, in 2022, did the Times finally confirm the authenticity of the laptop exposé.

Former and/or disgruntled employees of the Washington Post, USA Today, and LA Times have yet to disclose their internal conversations about dismissing arguably the most soundly-reported political bombshell of the past decade.   

Expect those to surface, eventually.

Donald Trump is the favorite to win the upcoming election. But interference via the censorship industrial complex looms over 2024.  The esteemed duo of the media and tech meddled in the 2020 election on behalf of Joe Biden.

They will do so again. 

We all know they will.