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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
OK, we can have this discussion. I would not be surprised if a Ukrainian energy company paid him what seems like a lot of money to you (do you have any idea what directors of comparable companies make?) in the hopes of getting access. I have seen how directors get picked in this country, and NEWS FLASH it's not a meritocracy out there. Who you know matters, and people give you seats in the hopes that you will use your network, hopes that do not always pan out.)
But the internal workings of a Ukrainian energy company are not newsworthy in this country.
By "newsworthy" I am excluding the public's interest in invading other people's privacy. Lots of people are interested in porn or seeing the insides of other people's houses. That does not make porn or Zillow listings newsworthy. Similarly, a political party's interest in harming the other side does not make something newsworthy. If there were a Hunter Biden sex tape, and if Trump wanted it out there, it would not be newsworthy.
You misunderstood. It's not "what about Trump?" The ONLY REASON ANYONE IS TALKING ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN IS TRUMP'S DESIRE TO GET PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN. The New York Post is not running stories about him out of some abstract sense that Hunter Biden's doings are newsworthy. They only did it when Joe ran for President. It's a transparent effort to create a controversy like the Hillary emails, and the very fact that it's a bogus story is part of the way that it becomes a story. People like you can pretend not to care and yet keep repeating "Hunter Biden's laptop" in a way that convinces other people that there is something sinister about Hunter Biden's laptop.
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1. Again, what you think is immaterial. $50k per month is a lot of money, objectively, to most Americans. And that’s just the board money. The investments/loans are unknown (to me... I’m sure you could find an estimate in some news story).
AND, the FBI is investigating Hunter.
Let me ask you this: If Chelsea Clinton, or a Trump or Obama kid, were discovered to be doing what Hunter did, and the FBI decided to start investigating it (as it did starting in 2019), would that have been a newsworthy story?
That’s rhetorical.
2. That Trump tried to push the story does not render it non-newsworthy. Like it or not, he’s newsworthy. And he was POTUS when he did it. The definition of newsworthy is objective, not what you or I think.
3. The Post is biased. Agreed. This does not render the story non-newsworthy.
4. Stop with “invading privacy” angle. Non-starter. Obvious dissembling.
