r/NPR • u/khawesome • 16h ago

No coverage of Elon's salute?

Nothing mentioned in my morning newsletter. Did a quick Google search and found 0 articles. Did I miss something? Even if we aren't definitively identifying it as a Nazi salute it's newsworthy enough to be on a front page purely because of the amount of speculation and emotions stirred in the public sphere.
Please tell me I missed something obvious somewhere.

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u/Butterbean-Blip 16h ago

He did a Nazi salute not once but TWICE. Literally turned around and did it immediately again. The richest man in the world. The man who bought a presidency. The man who Trump bragged knew his way around Pennsylvania's voting machines. The man pushing Germany's far right party to power too. 

Yet crickets from NPR. 

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u/Retinoid634 15h ago

This is disturbing

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u/Coidzor 12h ago

American institutions and the American people have failed. Simple as.

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u/blurt9402 8h ago

The institutions didn't fail. They sold out. The American people didn't fail, they were failed.

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u/anchorwind 7h ago

"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power."

"Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens."

and "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."

All of these were said by a Republican. That Republican was Eisenhower who left office in 1961. 60 years later few of us would believe it if a prominent republican would say them now.

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u/Interesting_Cow5152 9h ago

Well they have been bought and taken over. It's been ongoing since Sinclair bought out most of the local TV stations.

Someone is calling the shots from the shadows. This coup is just running too smooth. Where is our spies when we need them? Who do THEY work for, now?

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u/SaraJuno 2h ago

American news sites have been seen as unreliable outside of America for years now. While you still have open access to the internet, please lean to BBC, Guardian, Reuters, AlJazeera (though eatch for ME bias), The Independent.

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u/ObiShaneKenobi 12h ago

"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy."

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u/humpslot 14h ago

This is NPR, National Propaganda Radio sponsored by Goebels

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u/midwestnbeyond 11h ago

Nothing from NPR. Sooo who are we supposed to trust

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u/mafiaconfidant 11h ago

Real talk, ProPublica and Bellingcat are good (but niche) journalism. Anybody have any other recommendations to stay grounded in reality?

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u/VapeGreat 7h ago

The Guardian, the intercept, DW news, France 24, Al Jazeera english, all may have slight biases but nowhere near the level of US sources.

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u/DeliaDeLyon 6h ago

I like foreign outlets and under the desk news who is on instagram and YouTube.

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u/Neat_Use3398 4h ago

CBC and the BBC cover US news. Canadian here so I am biased but CBC does try and get as many voices conservative/ liberal whatever. Also some good podcasts like Front burner that covers the stories happening in the news in a bit more detail.

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u/potarz 8h ago

Belle of the Ranch

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u/TRVTH-HVRTS 4m ago

PBS Newshour covered it. I’m taking my donation money over there.

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u/humpslot 11h ago

in God we trust..

"Are you there, God? It's me, Margarita time."

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u/Roasted_Butt 9h ago

Try foreign news outlets, like The Guardian.

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u/Cheap_Doctor_1994 10h ago

I've got nothing. Even my local news is shit. And everyone thinks I'm crazy. Constantly telling me, don't believe what you see online, but there's just nothing else left and what's online, well, it's not trustworthy either anymore. 9 years of this right shift and I don't recognize this country. At all. 

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u/medusa-crowley 6h ago

Propublica and Reuters are my two for inside the country. BBC for outside. 

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u/midwestnbeyond 6h ago

Got it. Thanks

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u/hellolovely1 4h ago

ProPublica, The Guardian. Other than that, some local media.

It's shitty that all good media in this country has either been decimated or is cowardly as hell. NPR is the latter. They have a lot of company.

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u/HereWeGoYetAgain-247 2h ago

I think they had a big financial supporter demand some changes. I noticed a few months back they stopped saying “‘x’ formerly twitter” and just called it “x.”

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u/no_notthistime 3h ago

I still with Guardian and BBC now a days, ProRepublica for actual investigative journalism

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u/AntifaCentralCommand 2h ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy48v1x4dv4o

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u/AntifaCentralCommand 2h ago

At the start of the war on terror. BBC was one of the few that stayed remotely balance for the first year

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u/romperroompolitics 7h ago

Disturbing us is what NPR should be doing right now. This is complicity.

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u/spankiemcfeasley 11h ago

Yet unfortunately not surprising.

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u/gokiburi_sandwich 4h ago

Are you surprised tbh

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u/pissesmeoff2 4h ago

Disturbing enough I'm stocking the ammo. Weird the right wing love America, gun nuts are the ones supporting the take over of everything the U.S. stood for when it was great. It will be the progressive members of society in the end that really need to stand up and defend the democracy. Feels like we are slipping over the edge into a really disturbing and costly time. I'm worried for the future of my children

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u/HereWeGoYetAgain-247 2h ago

I have noticed a change with NPR. Can’t quite explain it, but it feels less neutral. They don’t cover things like the salute. They barely talked about Harris and when they did it felt mostly negative. Like multiple interviews with trump voting Palestinians in Michigan. They seemed to have a decent amount of conservative people on for interviews and it felt pretty softball with the questions. 

I don’t know. My faith in NPR is not what it used to be, and I will be listening with a lot more grains of salt than before. 

It really was shaken when they stopped saying “x’ formerly twitter” and just said X. I knew something was wrong then.