Award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald says members of the mainstream media are "concocting excuses" and ignoring the Hunter Biden email saga because of their antipathy for President Donald Trump.
"The reality is the U.S. press has been planning for this moment for four years — cooking up justifications for refusing to report on newsworthy material that might help Donald Trump get re-elected," he wrote in a 6,000-word draft of the article that The Intercept, the publication he helped found, would not publish, reports The New York Post.
"One major factor is the undeniable truth that journalists with national outlets based in New York, Washington and West Coast cities overwhelmingly not just favor Joe Biden but are desperate to see Donald Trump defeated," he added.
Greenwald self-published his article through the Substack website after resigning from The Intercept, which he said had refused to publish his work "unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.”
Green cited a tweet by National Public Radio’s public editor that said, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories," and pointed to CNN's Christiane Amanpour, complaining that she "barely pretended to be interested in any journalism surrounding the story, scoffing during an interview at requests from the RNC’s Elizabeth Harrington to cover the story and verify the documents by telling her: ‘We’re not going to do your work for you.'"
He said he sent the Biden campaign an email with nine questions about the Hunter Biden documents.
Greenwald helped The Guardian U.S. win the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 with his coverage of whistleblower Edward Snowden before moving on to The Intercept.
Betsy Reed, editor-in-chief of The Intercept, said in a statement on the site that Greenwald "believes that anyone who disagrees with him is corrupt, and anyone who presumes to edit his words is a censor ... while he accuses us of political bias, it was he who was attempting to recycle the dubious claims of a political campaign — the Trump campaign — and launder them as journalism."
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