By Ryan Saavedra
Rolling Stone magazine allegedly omitted references to child pornography in a report from the publication late last year about the FBI’s raid on an ABC News journalist.
NPR reported that Rolling Stone Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman edited the story from reporter Tatiana Siegel on former ABC News national security producer James Gordon Meek, who was arrested earlier this year on child pornography charges.
The report said that Shachtman told Siegel not to use the words “child pornography” in her article.
Shachtman has reportedly always been skeptical of government sources and did not believe that the reporter had solid enough sources to be able to claim that the raid had something to do with child pornography, according to the NPR report. Shachtman also instructed those involved with selecting the photo for the story to use a photo of the FBI and not of Meek.
“The Meek case was a particularly complex one, and the editorial choices made while covering it weren’t always simple or easy,” Rolling Stone’s parent company, Penske Media, said in a statement. “So Rolling Stone stuck to a simple principle: publish in the moment as much information as it could confidently substantiate.”
Meek, 53, of Arlington, Virginia, was arrested at the end of January after the file hosting service Dropbox tipped off authorities about five suspected videos of child sexual exploitation material in an account. The information was ultimately received by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.
FBI authorities conducted a raid of Meek’s residence in April 2022, and he resigned shortly after.
“Law enforcement seized multiple devices that allegedly contained evidence of the transportation of images of child sexual abuse,” authorities said in a news release.
According to court documents, devices belonging to the producer allegedly contained images depicting children engaged in sexually explicit conduct and multiple chat conversations with users engaged in sexually explicit conversations where the participants expressed enthusiasm for the sexual abuse of children.
“In two of those conversations, a username allegedly associated with Meek received and distributed child sexual abuse materials through an internet-based messaging platform,” the statement reads.
Prosecutors claimed they found pornographic images on the producer’s iPhone 8, iPhone 6, an external hard drive, and laptop depicting the abuse of children as young as a toddler.
The Liberal Media never reveal the truth or they prefer to hide it in the back pages
This is what the Ministry of Propaganda does.