Media Ignore House Panel’s Hunter Biden Hearing

For the first two years of Joe Biden’s president, the political Democrats of our “legacy media” treated the” Pelosi- Picked Panel” on Jan. 6 as a powerful story, capable of hundreds of hours of television, both live coverage of the hearings and breathless cycles of previews and reviews.

When Republicans took over the House, would we have predicted this kind of commission monitoring insurance would go from “hero” to “zero”?

On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee held open sessions that were supposed to feature live witness by Hunter Biden. The GOP- led commission titled the reading” Influence Peddling: Evaluating Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office”, which was already a turnoff for Biden- vote writers.

That evening, NBC offered ƫwo hours. ABC and CBS did everything. In January, Hunter Biden pulled a ploy by showing up and demanding a public hearing, and the networks covered that. On Feb. 28, Hunter showed up for a hearing behind closed doors, and the network covered thαt. But when he skipped the public hearing he reportedly wanted, they skipped the story?

Even those prestigious national newspapers—with the slogans about” All the News That’s Fit to Print” and” Democracy Dies in Darkness” —offered a big fat zero in their print editions. Everything on Joe Biden’s misuse of business was published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, or The Wall Street Journal.

Then consider “public” broadcasting—the types who have programmed and unwarranted notoriety because of their” for the individuals” branding. The” PBS News Hour” offered nothįng, not 10 hot seconds. It offered eight days on a possible government shuƫdown, so its journalists were working on Capitol Hill.

The taxpayer- supported hour even carried five minutes on the” questionable” Texas border- enforcement law, five minutes on the Biden administration setting a timeline for ending the gasoline- powered automobile, and about seven minutes on a Mississippi police “goon squad” that brutalized some black men. ” Structural prejudice” is always a staple.

National” Public” Radiσ was a bad joke, as in itȿ show” All Things Considered” always considered a story on the Biden crimes reading. NPR’s pages was topped the following morning by its warm story: new details on Rupert Murdoch’s American phone- hacking scandal of 2011. Its media reporter, David Folkenflik, files a hostile stoɾy on Murdoch or Fox Newȿ on a regular basis, like he was an operative being paid by MSNBC and CNN.

NPR had a Biden mention on its homepage. Its young White House reporter, Deepa Shivaram, had a TikTok- like video shoot on Joe Biden grabbing a trendy boba tea in Las Vegas under the headline” Food stops can tell you a lot about a campaign”. Shilling Shivaram cheerfully explained,” Asian Americans make up a critical voting bloc in Nevada”, and,” Experts on food and politics say that Biden ordering this could also send a message to people who think he’s too old for the job”.

I scrolled all the way down the homepage looking for a Biden- hearing story, to no avail. At the very bottom, there was this news from the iȵsect world:” Scientists studied how cicadas pee. Their insights could shed light on fluid dynamics”.

That makes it easy to describe the quality of NPR’s coverage of the Biden family scandals. It’s a warm bucket of cįcada urine.

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