{"id":135640,"date":"2020-12-17T02:17:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-americans-distrust-the-media\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T02:17:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:17:46","slug":"why-americans-distrust-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-americans-distrust-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why Americans distrust the media"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why Americans distrust the media<\/a><\/strong>”
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Covering for the Biden family by trying to suppress rather than report on The Post\u2019s scoops may prove expensive for a host of US media institutions \u2014 especially the privileged social-media companies.<\/p>\n

A majority of voters say the media intentionally buried The Post\u2019s October bombshell about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop to help his father Joe Biden\u2019s political campaign, a Rasmussen Reports poll showed Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The poll found 52 percent of likely voters believe media companies provided scant coverage of the laptop story \u2014 which shed light on Hunter\u2019s Ukrainian and Chinese business activities and suggested Joe Biden knew about them, despite his denials \u2014 in order to boost Biden\u2019s prospects in the election, then a few weeks off. Only 32 percent disagreed.<\/p>\n

Among those who said they followed the news<\/a> \u201cvery closely,\u201d more than three in four (76 percent) say the media ignored the story to help Biden. <\/p>\n

A clear majority of voters (56 percent) also think it\u2019s \u201clikely\u201d the president-elect was aware of his son\u2019s ties to a corrupt Ukrainian business and to China, including 43 percent who think it\u2019s \u201cvery likely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Federal Election Commission records reviewed by Fox News reveal<\/a> that top execs at Facebook and Twitter gave tens of thousands of dollars to Biden\u2019s campaign \u2014 and \u201czero\u201d to Team Trump. Many officials, like Facebook\u2019s Erin Egan and Twitter\u2019s James Kelm, gave the maximum, $5,600, to Biden during the primary and general<\/a> elections. And this follows reports in October that found employees at the two companies sent more than 90 percent of their donations to Democrats.<\/p>\n

Can it really just be some freaky coincidence that these plainly pro-Biden Big Tech firms also suppressed a story that might have hurt his prospects? Please. <\/p>\n

Their aim was clear: They censored the story, with Twitter even suspending the accounts of those (including this newspaper) trying to share it, to protect him. (Their ideological bias also explains why they tend to \u201cflag\u201d or suppress pro-conservative content generally.) <\/p>\n

Last week, Hunter Biden all-but-confirmed the laptop story by admitting the feds were probing him, and Fox News had previously confirmed that the laptop was part of an FBI probe. So there was never any good justification for burying this news. (The \u201cthis may be Russian disinformation\u201d excuse never had any basis in fact.)<\/p>\n

With the election over, news media that followed Facebook and Twitter\u2019s lead in suppressing the report are finally running it. But they\u2019ve taught the public not to trust them. And the social-media firms provided damning evidence that they qualify as publishers, not \u201cplatforms\u201d that can escape accountability for their content. <\/p>\n

Sure, Facebook, Twitter and other media are private companies and can do whatever they like. But news gatekeepers have an ethical duty to present all<\/em> the important news, even when it makes their favored candidates look bad. <\/p>\n

Getting caught keeping Americans in the dark is an extremely bad business move.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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