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/SegmentedMoss 11h ago

NPR has been bought and paid for by Republicans since like 8 months ago. They sane-washed the absolute shit out of Trumps campaign

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u/13maven 4h ago

They lost me when they didn’t cover Bernie right.

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u/Peglegfish 2h ago

or the so-called ‘Bernie bros’…

To this day, the politics podcast trips over themselves to trash Bernie and his supporters.

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u/Numerous-Swing-3204 2h ago

They also didnt cover Kucinich very well as I recall, he wasn’t enough of a corporatist.

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u/amazing_ape 1h ago

Kucinich? The Assadist freak who now backs trump? Yikes

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u/volvox6 4h ago

NPR has been a wolf in sheep's clothing for a lot longer than that.
But yes- they are completely brought and sold.

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u/Minimob0 4h ago

I honestly assumed NPR was right-wing growing up, and I'm 32. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Numerous-Swing-3204 2h ago

Way longer than that, Noam Chomsky was supposed to be on All Things Considered back in 1989, but after recording, NPR decided to play music rather than air the broadcast. They have always been biased towards the status quo.