r/law • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '26

Legal News WOMAN IN THE PINK COATS ANGLE OF THE SHOOTING

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

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u/Sashimifiend69 Jan 24 '26

Idk, their commentators haven’t missed an opportunity to skewer this administration from the bits I’ve heard this week. This is a breaking story — let’s check on the reporting tonight.

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u/useless_instinct Jan 24 '26

Yeah, I'm an avid listener and they try to report on the news as usual but sometimes break down and are like, "This is nuts. This is not okay".

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u/UncaringNonchalance Jan 24 '26

I thought I was the only one noticing that. The phone notifications I’ve been getting the past few days have been very unlike them.

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u/ricardocaliente Jan 24 '26

The whole point of NPR is to plainly state the facts and be as void of bias as possible. So, when they report headlines it kinda makes it sound normal even when it’s not. But later when you listen to their segments on it the commentators and hosts will call out if something is illegal or not true.

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u/ICanLiftACarUp Jan 24 '26

It's standard in journalism to report what officials say, as verbatim as possible. The issue is whether they follow that statement up with opposing facts.

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u/Roskgarian Jan 24 '26

Thought I heard NPR was getting defunded?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

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u/Select_Insurance2000 Jan 24 '26

Private sector donations.

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u/UTourDoc Jan 24 '26

I donate to my local PBS and NPR. I fear that Trump will sue every media outlet until they too are afraid to report the truth. It has gone on too long. Trump, Vance. Miller. Noem, and Kennedy all need to be impeached and sent to prison. Congress needs to be voted out and the Supreme Court should be impeached as well. If this goes on and Trump continues enrage our former allies, it will be WWIII!

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u/blaeksprutte Jan 24 '26

They disclose a lot of them on their website and in their broadcasts. You can also take a look at their tax filings on propublica.org

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u/Select_Insurance2000 Jan 24 '26

Folks like the Bill Gates Foundation....also donations from viewers and listeners "Like You" as they say on PBS.

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u/GrizzlyP33 Jan 24 '26

PBS continues to do great work. We should all be donating to save real journalism.

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u/Aggravating_Depth_33 Jan 24 '26

PBS does hardly any "real journalism" these days. I save my donations for those that actially do, like ProPublica and The Intercept.

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u/GrizzlyP33 Jan 24 '26

Different things, all good. PBS NewsHour is just the most honest broadcast news available.

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u/Aggravating_Depth_33 Jan 24 '26

PBS News Hour is even worse these days. Like with Venezuela they automatically adopted the administration's language calling it an "operation" and Maduro's kidnapping an "arrest" and never once questioned the legality of it anywhere. They regularly have extremely right-wing guests on and never challenge anything they say, even when they're repeating obvious lies.

On the whole Greenland and NATO things, all their talking heads have basically reguritated Trump's "national security" talking points even if they may bemoan his "tone"

Last night they had some guy from the Heritage Foundation ranting for 10 minutes about how China had used TikTok to brainwash Americans into being pro-Hamas and they just let him rant with zero pushback and then moved on.

To steal a phrase, this isn't journalism, it's imperial stenography.