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.
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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.
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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.
When it's obviously a right winger, best they can do is "both sides" the narrative
Of the logos shown, only Fox News would ever use the term "radical leftist".
Blue state markets are very different. Not to mention you have a Pacifica affiliate there too. Which will help skew things further towards reality.
Your average Midwesterner hearing a pacifica broadcast would think it came from an alternate reality and not their own.
As a proper American, I found about this latest shooting through memes. This one.
Same here
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.
There are very different war veteran experiences out there and very different ways of coping with them.
I’m not denying that. And I also admit that veterans are taking their lives way too quickly. One guy I know, marine sniper, fought in Fallujah during the worst of, he suffers a lot. Can’t really keep a job for more than a year. He’s had nearly all of the guys in his squad that came back alive commit suicide over the last 15 years. It’s beyond tragic what some of these guys are going through.
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Week?
Untreated PTSD?
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Finally, in news from the US, a crazy person attacked a local crazy cult. And now, the weather...
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
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Some are honorable cultlists, that wear ties, others are dispisable cults that wear silly hats.
They are the same picture.
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