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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't think what Hunter Biden does with his life is news, as a general proposition. I think the same is true for Chelsea Clinton and Barron Trump. If they make a lot of money -- not news. If they beat their spouses -- not news. (If they want to do puff pieces in People or Us, whatever, but that's not news either, even if lots of people want to read it.) If, OTOH, Hunter Biden uses his access to do something corrupt -- that would be news. But that hasn't happened.As close as you can come is, some Ukrainians gave him a bunch of money because they hoped he'd be helpful. Not news.
You aren't explaining why you think people should care about how much money Hunter Biden -- you're pointedly refusing to have that conversation, by playing semantics with the word "newsworthy." If you really think that word means what you're pretending it means, then you would say, yes, porn and Zillow listings are newsworthy. You decline to say that. So, you're playing semantics, just not very well.
I only argue with you when you're wrong, so it's not that fatiguing tbh.
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It appears I know less about the story than there is, and you’re doubling down on the wrong hand:
“The probe began as early as 2018 and concerns multiple financial and business activities in foreign countries dating to when Hunter Biden's father was vice president. Investigators have examined whether Hunter Biden and some of his associates violated money laundering, tax and foreign lobbying laws, as well as firearm and other regulations, multiple sources previously told CNN.”
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/04/26/p...ion/index.html
“Hunter Biden told associates in recent months that he paid the federal taxes that had been the subject of Justice Department scrutiny. He told one associate that the tax liability was more than $1 million, and that he had to take out a loan to pay it off.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/u...stigation.html
One million in tax liabilities is a nice chunk of change.
Oh, and…
“Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-china-laptop/
None of this is newsworthy, of course. Which is why the NYTimes, WaPo, and CNN have not reported on it.
This is like a fight with your spouse, or a flat earth argument. There is no successful path.
Have a drink, drop this, and I will drop it too. I don’t want to do this. I actually prefer being proven wrong. On the “biased platform” discussion, I adjusted me views based on a sincere consideration of what you offered. But on this newsworthiness thing, your position is best abandoned and forgotten.
