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CNN host Brian Stelter invited The Atlantic journalist Anne Applebaum onto his “Reliable Sources” show Sunday, but refrained from asking his guest about her controversial comments dismissing of the Hunter Biden laptop story, during a “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference this past week at the University of Chicago.
At this event, Applebaum was asked by college freshman and Chicago Thinker journalist Daniel Schmidt about the media’s culpability in refusing to cover the laptop story when it first broke, weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
Applebaum asserted Hunter Biden’s controversial business relationships didn’t have anything to do with the presidential race, and she “didn’t find it to be interesting.”
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“Do you think the media acted inappropriately when they instantly dismissed Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation and what can be learned from that in ensuring that what we label as disinformation is truly disinformation and not reality?” Schmidt asked.
“My problem with Hunter Biden’s laptop is, I think, totally irrelevant. I mean, it’s not whether it’s disinformation,” Applebaum responded. “I mean, I didn’t think Hunter Biden’s business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the United States. So, I don’t find it to be interesting. I mean, that would be my problem with that as a major news story.”
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Stelter himself was also confronted by another University of Chicago freshman and journalist from The Chicago Thinker, Christopher Phillips, over CNN pushing misinformation and covering up the Hunter Biden laptop story.
“They push the Russian collusion hoax, they push the Jussie Smollett hoax, they smear Justice Kavanaugh as a…
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