LET’S PLAY ANOTHER ROUND OF “A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT:” Most media observers last week were either timidly admitting (or boasting, depending on their posture) that yes, conservative and right-leaning or oriented news organizations were right all along about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

The NY Post had the story (as did others) and summed it up nicely:

[The Washington Post and New York Times] (Mottos: “All the news that’s fit to print” and “Democracy dies in darkness”) joined in the drive to suppress The Post’s reporting off the laptop, playing up bogus, clearly partisan claims that it was somehow “Russian disinformation.”

It turns out that another media walk-back (or crawl-back, given the time it took) happened last week, though with much less fanfare. The Hill finally admitted sub rosa (by adding corrections to many stories) that investigative reporter John Solomon of JustTheNews did not make any errors in his reports about Ukraine and other stories, and finally (this began in 2017!) their newsroom review did not find any unethical behavior as they had previously asserted. Solomon published a succinct statement, saying in part:

“Although the review ultimately did not undermine what I reported, I remain disappointed that The Hill did not seek to interview me. The criticism of my work in the newsroom’s review involved a determination that my columns departed from standard opinion content because they contained too many facts and revelations. To that, I plead guilty. For over a century of great journalism, opinion columnists from Jack Anderson to David Broder to Robert Novak broke enormous stories, factually documented, on the opinion pages of their publications, just like I did at The Hill. I feel no need to apologize for trying to follow in that tradition or to inform the American public.”

Of course, a lie travels around the world before the truth is out of bed, and Solomon has been subjected to a lot of unfair and disrespectful treatment as The Hill’s initial condemnation began to take root.

“Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?” — Raymond Donovan

** Disclosure: I often perform legal review of stories published by JTN.**