So on the one hand the New York Post is "a rag" as nicbou said, but on the other hand its reporters' judgments are reliable. Got it.
If you'd bothered to keep reading in Wikipedia, you'd have seen (from after all the shouting subsided):
>Former Politico reporters Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri said in January 2025 that, because of "dumb decisions of cowardly editors", they were told "Don't write about the laptop, don't talk about the laptop, don't tweet about the laptop". Caputo said the Bertrand story about the 51 former officials had a "terrible, ill-fated headline ... because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true". In 2019 the campaign of a rival Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election gave Caputo opposition research on Burisma and Hunter Biden but "That story was killed by the editors, and they gave no explanation for that either", he recalled.
> on the one hand the New York Post is "a rag" as nicbou said, but on the other hand its reporters' judgments are reliable
I know a handful of Post reporters. The short answer is their bar for publishing is lower. That means they catch stories earlier than the majors. (Same way specialist blogs do.) But they also post stuff that later needs to, or should have been, retracted. (Again, like a blog.)
Put another way, it's an entertaining paper that's not really comparable to the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or New York Times in terms of quality or intent. But it does bring a more conservative angle to the mix in the same way those papers' journalists (or more accurately, e.g. Jon Stewart) bring a liberal/leftist perspective to the fore.
> So on the one hand the New York Post is "a rag" as nicbou said, but on the other hand its reporters' judgments are reliable.
Another way to look at it is that the story stank so much, even NYPost reporters (who are probably used to the gutter journalism) didn't want their name near it.
If you'd bothered to keep reading in Wikipedia, you'd have seen (from after all the shouting subsided):
>Former Politico reporters Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri said in January 2025 that, because of "dumb decisions of cowardly editors", they were told "Don't write about the laptop, don't talk about the laptop, don't tweet about the laptop". Caputo said the Bertrand story about the 51 former officials had a "terrible, ill-fated headline ... because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true". In 2019 the campaign of a rival Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election gave Caputo opposition research on Burisma and Hunter Biden but "That story was killed by the editors, and they gave no explanation for that either", he recalled.
After that, read <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_letter>.