House Biden Hearings ‘Died in Darkness’ — Washington Post Had NOTHING in Paper

It’s bad enough when broadcast media outlets like ABC and NPR refuse to cover a congressional oversight hearing on the Biden family business. But a national newspaper putting nothing in the paper? Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing “died in darkness” in The Washington Post.

The Post had no story anywhere in the paper. Two Biden-defensive stories were posted online. Sally Buzbee, who took over the top slot at the Post from the Associated Press, has beclowned the paper.

But right there on Thursday’s front page is a Trump scandal story, headlined by four Post reporters. The headline was “Jan. 6 probes point to charges: TRUMP’s ROLE LOOMS LARGE.” The reporter quartet gushed that “just as another presidential campaign featuring Trump accelerates toward primary season, the assorted local, state, and federal probes are bursting into highly visible action – seemingly all at once.”

The Post knows which stories it wants to be “bursting into highly visible action” and which ones should be strangled to death in a back alley.

USA Today also had no House Oversight hearing story on Thursday, but that’s because their deadline is ridiculously early. Like the Post, the McPaper front page touted bad news for Trump: “Target letter gives clues to charges Trump might face.” Under that, the paper touted a related article on 4A: “Trump’s Jan. 6 speech could factor into charges.”

The New York Times downplayed the House Oversight hearing to page A-16 – the bottom of the page. On the front page, The Times published a “News Analysis” by Charlie Savage titled “Being on the Trail and on Trial May Be a Tall Order for Trump.”

The top of page A-16 was a story headlined “Another Possible [Trump] Indictment, But Republicans Just Shrug.” There was also an anti-Trump story across from the Biden story on the bottom of A-17, meaning the entire page was two anti-Trump stories.  

The Biden story was headlined “IRS Whistle-Blowers Allege Bias in the Hunter Biden Investigation.” Reporter Luke Broadwater seriously recounted the testimony, and then added “if the proceeding at times was a sober recounting of facts and details from a high-profile but secretive investigation [?] it also veered into rank partisanship, hyperbole – and in a spectacle seldom seen in a Capitol Hill hearing room – sexually explicit material.” This referred to Marjorie Taylor Greene displaying a photo from Hunter’s laptop.

Did Luke Broadwater miss the Lewinsky hearings? Naturally, one of the online Washington Post stories focused on “Marjorie Taylor Greene’s explicit visuals at Hunter Biden hearing draw rebuke.”

The Wall Street Journal offered a House Oversight story on page A5, headlined “IRS Employees Testify on Hunter Biden Tax Probe: Two allege DOJ hampered effort; Democrats on panel express skepticism.” At least the Journal had no front-page story on Trump to underline the double standard.