Boy, have whistleblowers fallen from favor at institutions like The New York Times.
Back in the Trump era, their accusations were front-page news. Now they’re lucky to make page 15: That’s where the paper (exactly like The Washington Post) put its account of the jaw-dropping latest dirt from the IRS agents charging gross political interference in the Hunter Biden investigation.
The Times’ account (even online, where space is unlimited) was rather spotty, too: No mention of the info suggesting Attorney General Merrick Garland seems to have perjured, himself, for example.
Instead, the paper focused near-exclusively on that (admittedly shocking) WhatsApp message Hunter allegedly sent, threatening his Chinese partners with Joe’s vengeance (“he’s sitting right next to me”) if they don’t pay up.
By pure coincidence, we’re sure, that particular bombshell is easy enough to wave off as (if true!) nothing but bluster from the then-drug-addled First Son.
Still, it’s a huge contrast to how most of the media played the whistleblower charges that led to the first Donald Trump impeachment, over the then-prez’s bullying call to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.
Heck, the liberal media even condemned sometime New York Post contributor Paul Sperry for identifying that whistleblower as Obama holdover Eric Ciaramella.
Sperry also reported that Ciaramella had actually drafted his complaint with help from Rep. Adam Schiff’s office, though Schiff pretended the whole thing was spontaneous (and also later falsely pressed Twitter to ban Sperry).
Meanwhile, the media transformed quasi-whistleblowers in that affair, like Lt.-Col. Alex Vindman, into outright stars.
Remarkably, the press have yet to report any dirt on the Biden whistleblower, though he went public weeks ago as career IRS employee Gary Shapley.
That is: No one’s yet come forward with any reason to doubt the word of Shapley or the still-anonymous colleague who supports his allegations — though the vast Democratic opposition-research apparatus, and Dem-loyal “journalists” like the ProPublica crew, have surely tried.
If you can’t attack them, the Times & Co. have apparently decided, do your best to ignore them, or at least bury what bits you find you have to report.
Isn’t it about time to put a giant asterisk next to that “All the News That’s Fit to Print” banner?
This story originally appeared on NYPost
