National Public Radio’s public editor said she was “really uncomfortable” with large tech companies “censoring” The Post’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop — but gave her own outlet a free pass for declining to cover the story.
Kelly McBride, who has been NPR’s ombudsman since 2020, told The Wrap that tech firms such as X and Facebook were wrong to prevent users from sharing links to The Post’s revelations about the laptop, whose hard drive included emails linking the Biden family to a Ukrainian businessman.
“I was really uncomfortable with the tech companies censoring it,” McBride said. “Who are they to be the arbiters of truth?”
In April, Uri Berliner, who left NPR after publishing an essay critical of the outlet for its left-wing bias, faulted his former employer for ignoring the laptop story.
Nevertheless, McBride, who is now senior vice president at Poynter Institute, told The Wrap that she is more troubled with how tech companies blocked people from reading the story than she is about how NPR covered it. […]
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