As a proper American, I found about this latest shooting through memes. This one.
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I don’t understand NPR here. I listen to WNYC, it may be different but I don’t think this meme is correct about them. Prove me wrong, please.
Generally I think they try to painfully aim to be neutral, but with the Kirk shooter they seemed to indulge the jump to paint him as leftist and let the coverage emphasize the trans romantic partner angle and taking the bullet messages at face value without even mentioning the Groyper angle.
I think they mean well, but then I see it be all for naught. They had a right winger on and let him say as he like about how folks on the right have suffered and how it's all the left's fault, that all the violence has been leftists and they let him go on like this for a bit. Then they tried to at least add the context that not long ago multiple democrat politicians were killed and the right wing killer had a hit list to kill more of them, and the right winger just exploded about how unfair they were being and how they shouldn't exist as a news organization for daring to politicize the tragedy of Kirk's death.
Have also heard them trying to throw a life preserver to right wing interviewees to offer them a more legitimate sounding point than the craziness they were saying. Though more often than not the person rejects the potentially reasonable sounding rationale and looks all the more stupid for doubling down on their ridiculous rationale, so it still sometimes works.
NPR often times reports what is being reported, so if the rest of the media is saying it then NPR will say that’s what’s being said.
Sometimes it has the effect of adding their voice to the pile.
Same. I listen to both WUWM and WPR very regularly, and I have yet to hear them parrot this narrative.
When it's obviously a right winger, best they can do is "both sides" the narrative
Ah there it is.
That actually took a bit longer than I expected. Almost 2 hours for them to start lying.
Edit: the timestamps in the screenshot are rounded. It took almost 1:30:00 for them to make the accusations.
On that platform. I’m sure it was posted elsewhere within five minutes and the opinion “leftists at it again” appended.
That's not a news broadcaster but some rando on Reddit with one upvotes...
Haha the guy's leaning right, but it's the viewer's left, so he's left leaning.
But he's holding the bird with his left hand, because he's leftist.
Everything is left if you want it bad enough lol.
the lean is also a clue that he's a beta and thus votes democrat alpha males are always completely perpendicular.
American conservatism is a violent, racist, fascist movement.
What is up with military vets going on wild killing sprees this past week?
Untreated PTSD with a large dose of hate speech and propaganda.
Ding ding ding. On the nose. You win a gun.
Could be violations to their constitutional oaths by their erstwhile leaders spurring them on
does it really surprise you that people trained to kill would… kill?
To some degree yes. About half the males in my high school graduating class went to Iraq and Afghanistan, most saw combat, and I don’t think any of them would go on a killing spree like the past two. I work along side many veterans, including ex special forces, and I don’t believe they would go on a killing spree.
Week?
Finally, in news from the US, a crazy person attacked a local crazy cult. And now, the weather...
Of you zoom right in there’s trans ideology engraved on the fish.
NPR? BBC? I'm confused by this meme now...
The so-called "left-leaning“ (in reality Centrist at the best of times and sometimes quite far right) media have a frequent tendency to report on ridiculous claims by the fascists without any indication that it's utter nonsense or even that there's no evidence for it.
Can I get a citation for NPR doing this? That would be surprising
Editorial "backstops" courtesy of anonymous donors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/business/npr-editing-backstop.html
I've been listening to NPR for years and since 2024 they started including right wing rhetoric in their reporting. It started getting really obvious the closer we got to the last election.
I listen to NPR as well, have for years, donate to my local station, and I've only ever heard them discuss right-wing talking points as exactly that: clearly labeled right-wing talking points that are relevant to informing listeners about the current state of the national discourse.
While anonymous donors of any kind rub me the wrong way, the article you linked doesn't provide evidence of the things I was asking for citations about.
Rather it specifically talks about a) concerns about the rapidity of journalism within NPR when having to go through more editor review and b) accusations of left-leaning bias from a former employee
I appreciate your concerns but the links you provided don't back up the claims I was responding to, and while they are concerning for a few reasons, none of those reasons are "becoming more right wing" or "repeating right wing talking points as fact or opinion".
Yeah idk why you're upvoted, unless I'm missing something. The articles you linked(could only read the first as the 2nd is behind a paywall) only talk about how much slower NPRs coverage may become due to the backstops. Nothing implies that they have become unreliable news.
I'm unconvinced that NPR is unreliable based on your info. I listen to their planet money, the 1A, and the indicator broadcasts. The 1A especially has recently been openly and bluntly criticizing the fascists movements of Trump/Republicans. The indicator and planet money are more economics focused (rather than politically focused than 1A ) but even they will criticize Republican actions if it doesn't align with economic theories.
Thomas Sanford once received racial left medical care
Am I the only one who can't get over "Jacbob" ?
Sounds like he was almost named "Jacknobobyeahthatsbetter"'
He looks like he's been indoctrinated in extreme trans gender violence.
A duck for a fuck, a fuck for a duck, or 25 cents for a fucked up duck
damn where are these prices 1990? 25 cents won't even get me part of a fucked up duck anymore
This radical leftist would love to do some duck hunting. I’m pretty good at clays and getting a meal at the end would be even better
Worked for Feds that’s all you need to know bet he went to fort Bragg as well
Military isn't the feds. Military also isn't not the feds, but it is more not the feds than it is not not the feds. Either way military is definitely not equal to feds, we just worked for them, mostly, kinda.
Signed a USN Captain Vet.
Is there some chance that this is a Catholic on Mormon retribution killing spree?
That was my theory. Not Catholic, but because the kid that supposedly helped Kirk complete his desire.