New York Post Insiders Slag 'Very Flimsy' Hunter Biden Stories

[JonLP24]

The New York Post’s own journalists say they are skeptical of the paper’s stories about Hunter Biden, including the man who wrote most of the “smoking gun” story and would not put his name on it, four newsroom sources told Intelligencer.

On Wednesday morning, the Post dropped what it clearly hoped would be a bombshell — an exclusive report based on copies of emails and photos that had supposedly belonged to Hunter, the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The Post said the files were recovered from a computer that belonged to Hunter and was dropped off at a computer-repair shop near the Biden family’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, last spring. The shop’s owner, a Trump supporter, gave the files to the president’s consigliere, Rudy Giuliani, who finally delivered them to the Post. The Post has not said publicly whether it authenticated the files.

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“It’s not something that meets my journalistic standards,” they said, adding that the piece “should not have been published.”

Indeed, reporter Bruce Golding wrote most of the first several stories and refused to put his name on them, according to one source. Golding did not respond to a request for comment. The New York Times first reported Golding’s reluctance on Sunday evening. Golding is a fixture at the paper, sources told Intelligencer, a master of the “rewrite” who can synthesize disparate reporters’ notes into splashy front-page stories written in the tabloid’s distinctive style. His involvement in the Hunter Biden story is not surprising, but his lack of a byline or reporting credit is highly unusual, according to current and former Post journalists. The Hunter Biden stories are credited to deputy politics editor Emma-Jo Morris and reporter Gabrielle Fonrouge.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/10/new-york-post-insiders-slag-flimsy-hunter-biden-stories.html

[Gothmog]

1. No real reporter would put their name on this piece of crap

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. What kind of "journalist" would even submit a story

if he wasn't willing to put his byline on it?

[kurtcagle]

3. One who is worried about becoming an ex-journalist

There are stories that you as a journalist write, and stories that your higher ups tell you to write. That's the point where you ask yourself if you have journalistic integrity or not.