Journalism 101 for Non-Journalists

 

Hunter Biden Sues Laptop Repair Shop Owner Citing Invasion of Privacy.The Washington Post

The lawsuit is an implicit admission that the laptop that was given to the FBI and Rudy Giuliani was in fact Hunter Biden’s laptop. The only way the laptop could be responsible for invading his privacy is if the material disseminated from it was in fact authentic.

Pretty much everyone now knows and admits that the laptop is authentic, and pretty much everyone knew in October of 2020 that the laptop was authentic, including the corporate media and social media that were propagating a lie formulated by the CIA that the laptop was “Russian disinformation.”

What we know for sure is that the media lied [about the laptop] and it’s Journalism 101 that when you make a mistake, as you’re going to do as a journalist, even big ones, the first thing you do is you go to your readers or your viewers and you say, I reported this, I’ve since learned it was false. This is why I got it wrong. I apologize. I retract it. And here’s what we’re doing to ensure it never happens again. That’s what you do if you are actually a journalist. That’s Journalism 101. If you don’t do that, you have no business claiming that title.

Not one single corporate outlet, not one, not a single one, every single time there’s more proof that they lied, has even acknowledged the evidence showing that they lied, let alone accounted for what they did, let alone retracted it. And they never will. Even now that Hunter Biden is suing the repair store in Delaware, implicitly acknowledging that that laptop was his all along, that he left it at the Delaware repair store, there’s not the slightest pressure to even acknowledge what they did or to retract it, because they are not journalists. They are there to lie on purpose. This is their mission. If you perform your job well, you don’t apologize. They’re showing you what their job is by not apologizing. Their job is to lie. Their job is to spread lies on behalf of the U.S. Security State and the Democratic Party to please their audience and to serve the political agenda that they all have. And that’s what they did here effectively, and that’s why they will never retract it.

So, every time there’s new evidence of this, I’m going to report it, I’m going to note it. I’m going to talk about it. As I say, I’ll probably do it until I die. And I know for sure, Hunter Biden could go on camera and say, “I now have a recovered memory. I remember clearly bringing my laptop to this repair shop, and then I abandoned it there and I recognized every document that was published by the New York Post as my own – and that, therefore, the way The New York Post claimed they got the story is, in fact, how they got this story.” He could swear to that under oath, and they still will never apologize for the lies that they spread for weeks before the election because lying is their mission, and they know that.

— Glenn Greenwald

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