<p class="speakable">Now that numerous news outlets have authenticated thousands of emails from Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop — dismissed by many when it was first reported as Russian propaganda — an editorial by The Washington Post called for a &#8220;reckoning&#8221; over the media&#8217;s handling of the story.</p>
<p>In a piece by the editorial board headlined &#8220;The Hunter Biden story is an opportunity for a reckoning,&#8221; the writers cited news outlets — including their own paper — that initially dismissed the story.</p>
<p>&#8220;For now, what’s more compelling than the assorted accusations about the Bidens’ behavior is this question: Why is confirmation of a story that first surfaced in the fall of 2020 emerging only now? When the New York Post published its blockbuster exclusive on the contents of a laptop said to have been abandoned at a Delaware repair shop by Hunter Biden, mainstream media organizations balked at running with the same narrative. Social media sites displayed even greater caution,&#8221; the editorial board wrote.</p>
<p>Facebook, for one, banned posting links to the original New York Post story. Twitter went further, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-lifts-new-york-posts-suspension-after-lengthy-standoff-over-hunter-biden-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspending</a> the New York Post. Meanwhile, numerous outlets either ignored the story or called it Russian disinformation.</p>
<p>The Washington Post board said there was reason for caution, but added that &#8220;doesn’t necessarily exonerate every action of every publication and platform.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This series of events has prompted allegations of a coverup, or at best a double standard in the treatment of conservative and liberal politicians by mainstream media and social media sites,&#8221; it wrote.</p>
<p>The liberal paper also sought to explain its own dismissal of the story, admitting fault for shutting down what turned out to be a valid report. &#8220;None of these dilemmas have easy answers. The lesson learned from 2016 was evidently to err on the side of setting aside questionable material in the heat of a political campaign. The lesson learned from 2020 may well be that there’s also a danger of suppressing accurate and relevant stories,&#8221; the editorial board concluded.</p>
<p>Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald, who had ripped the paper for ignoring the story, lauded the Post for addressing the media&#8217;s shortcomings, while still saying it seemed self-serving.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Editorial is filled with self-justifying caveats about why it was reasonable to have gotten the story so wrong. It downplays the full extent of the joint CIA/media/Big Tech lie,&#8221; Greenwald wrote on Twitter. &#8220;But at least the Post now stands alone in admitting the fraud and that an accounting is due.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;As welcome as it is, much of what&#8217;s in the Post&#8217;s Editorial is arrogant ad hoc rationalizing. They think a story is only confirmed once the NYT &amp; WP say so &#8211; lol. The evidence of the archive&#8217;s authenticity was overwhelming from the start. Many of us staked our careers on it,&#8221; Greenwald wrote.</p>
<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.</em></p>

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