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Re:Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low by afavour on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:50PM (#33253716)
> Hunter Biden's laptop was dismissed as a hoax but turns out it's legit

Does it? I'm genuinely not up to date here but the Hunter Biden laptop story was all about the supposedly explosive stuff stored on the laptop and I've still not seen any proof of that.

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Re:Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low by seti0Cha on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:01PM (#33253895)
The New York Times quietly acknowledged that the contents were probably legitimate in a story on a related subject. Unsurprisingly, it hasn't been a very high profile story in the mainstream media.

edit: link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

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Re:Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low by afavour on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:20PM (#33254163)
I guess I don’t really understand what you’re looking for here. You’re complaining about a lack of mainstream media coverage then pointing to mainstream media coverage. Typically papers write a follow up story when new facts have emerged, what new facts have emerged?
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Re:Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low by seti0Cha on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:55PM (#33254568)
> Typically papers write a follow up story when new facts have emerged, what new facts have emerged?

Great question. What new facts HAVE emerged that caused the New York Times to change their stance on the provenance of these emails? Seems like a story should have been written about that, right? Unless no new facts did emerge, but that would be even more concerning, wouldn't it? That would mean they were either intentionally misleading people or changing their mind capriciously.

It's bizarre to me the way people treat this as a non-issue. I myself wanted the story to be false because I didn't want it to cost Biden the election. I don't, however, approve of being mislead about things, even if I agree with the goals. This is doubly true for a news organization. It's a failure of their primary responsibility.

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Re:Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low by treis on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:13PM (#33254752)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/hunter-biden-laptop-...

The WaPo one is more technical and the NY mag article is more lurid.

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