prosecutors to start probing those with access to his laptop and use it to pedal stories to the press. this is the same laptop that hunter left in a delaware repair shop. the same laptop that prompted twitter to block distribution of the new york post scoop on its existence. the same laptop that much of the media once dismissed as russian disinformation. i doubt hunter biden s request for information will go anywhere but he s making himself a bigger story and a bigger media target. i m howard kurtz and this is media gleet buzz. howard: we ll look at what s fueled the media uproar over the chinese spy balloon that spy jets shot down yesterday. it was instantaneous after the washington post had hard hitting faze for hunter biden. it s his laptop, which we ve been telling people for more than two this is the first time hunter biden said, okay, it was my laptop, essentially; right? hunter came out last night and said, daddy, they stole my laptop. he demanded daddy s justice
differently. if it wasn t coming from prison? absolutely. imagine, look, if you want to claim the laptop was literally stolen, even though the story is that it was abandoned or left behind at the repair store. howard: if you didn t claim it in 90 days, you abandoned it. that doesn t the coverage then, the reporting on it, it s like a whistle blower scenario. you don t go after the people that report the information once they get it unless there was a criminal matter and they participated to get the information otherwise you get information like this and you re supposed to report it and he s trying to silence that and that s very bad. that was a creative dance by the way to try and say this wasn t, we re going after it but not saying it is the laptop. might be but can t say for sure. what do you think angler this point if it poses a threat or chilling atmosphere for freedom of the press seeing all though at different times new york post in 2020, washington post, new york times