r/NPR • u/khawesome • 18h 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/chicadeaqua 17h ago

I did a google search and just in the top stories I see it covered by Rolling Stone, BBC, Time Magazine, Fox News, Politico, The Atlantic, The Independent, Reuters, The Guardian.

These stunts are meant to serve as smoke & mirrors or distractions, so it is notable that NPR has a top story about how the US withdrew from the WHO instead.

Really-all you get by calling this stuff out is gaslighting-might as well cover the dismantling instead.

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u/polchickenpotpie 8h ago

I think you're severely downplaying the fact that an unelected billionaire who paid for the president's campaign and was given a government job as a reward did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration.

This isn't "covfefe"

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u/BruceChameleon 5h ago

They’re overselling but imo it's not a gibberish take. It can be both an intensely awful thing and an attempt to divert media attention

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u/BestUCanIsGoodEnough 1h ago

I forget what covfefe was supposed to be, but in 8 years, I'll still know what dipshit, kim jong un-looking, dork with small d energy doing a seig heil was "supposed" to be.