Ep. 5091 – Joe Lauria on The New Yorker’s Disinformation on Biden and Ukraine – 10/11/2019

Scott interviews Joe Lauria about his recent Consortium News piece calling out the failures of The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer and the rest of the mainstream media’s “investigative journalists” to actually do any investigative journalism with respect to the Ukraine impeachment inquiry. Lauria points out that at the very least, Joe Biden is guilty of a level of nepotism that should be totally unacceptable—and he recently even admitted this himself. But Lauria also reminds us that the Obama administration backed a neo-Nazi coup in Ukraine in 2014, and then placed multiple friendly Americans in high-level government and business positions. Mayer’s “investigation” points none of this out, opting instead to dismiss all concerns as wild conspiracy theory. Like “Russiagate” before, she and the rest of the mainstream media show little interest in discovering the truth behind “Ukrainegate”, happy instead to let their own partisanship get in the way of what should be their jobs.

Joe Lauria is the editor-in-chief at Consortium News. He is a former UN correspondent and wrote at the Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal. You can follow him on Twitter @unjoe.

Check out the interview page here: https://libertarianinstitute.org/scotthortonshow/10-11-19-joe-lauria-on-the-new-yorkers-partisan-disinformation-on-biden-and-ukraine/

For more on Scott's work:
Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org
Read Scott's book, Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan: https://foolserrand.us
Follow Scott on Twitter using the handle @scotthortonshow: https://twitter.com/scotthortonshow
Like Scott's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/scotthortonshow/
And check out Scott's full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews-2/

You can also support Scott's work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/
Or you can donate per interview at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scotthortonshow