Luke Rosiak, reporter for The Daily Wire and 2022 MRC Bulldog Award winner for outstanding investigative journalism, released an article on Friday about the latest developments in the scandal in cam girl turned Democratic Virginia State House candidate Susana Gibson. Rosiak reports that the Associated Press not only passed on the story, but alert Gibson to the fact that her public X-rated videos had been discovered.
At the bottom of a piece otherwise dedicated to whether Gibson’s video’s violated Virginia’s prostitution laws, Rosiak reports:
Correspondence viewed by The Daily Wire shows the Associated Press was tipped off about the pornographic content on September 5, but chose not to do anything with the story. It did, however, make Gibson aware of the videos, which she appears to have had taken down in the days after the Associated Press alerted her that they had been discovered.
The outlet did not cover the videos until September 12, after it had already been reported by others.
Not only did AP interfere in the election by not running the scandal of a candidate in a swing district with the State House majority and possibly Gov. Glenn Youngkin's agenda hanging in the balance possibly using porn profits for her campaign or “a good cause,” but it also interfered in the election by helping the Democrat get ahead of the news cycle.
The AP’s decision to go to bat for Gibson is part of a pattern for the media. The New York Times and CBS both described the story as a “leak.” A leak would be the result of a hacking operation not simply becoming aware of and calling attention to something that was released for public consumption.
