Is it just me? Or has the left wing online media been pretty lackluster on covering the Kirk assassination?
Half of them took a week to get anything out. Even then the coverage has been meek at best.
I understand not wanting to draw the ire of the raging children in office, but like cmon, get a little backbone.
Best I’ve seen is TruAnon but even that was late. Anyone know of any left wing media people that have been a little more proactive and timely?
I think thats because Kirk wasnt really interesting or important to any leftists. He was as generic as the conservative movement is at any one time. Hes said lots of evil and sadistic shit but none of it was really that far beyond or pushing new boundaries to the movement as a whole.
to be honest, if it were up to me they wouldn’t mention it at all. i only saw him on meme pages in life; he should only be seen on meme pages in death
Yeah, yugopnik had the best response. Silence, light up a cigarette, enormous puff.
Because he doesn’t matter. There are way more important things happening in the world
None of them wanted to highlight themselves for retaliation.
What would the left-wing media even say that the liberal media hadn’t? There’s no particularly good way to spin his death leftistly, and Kirk just isn’t very relevant.
The liberal media that’s glazing him to the same degree as conservatives? Yeah why would we want media countering that, idk
Sure, some of the big networks are glazing, but a bunch of liberal outlets aren’t.
Newsweek started posting about Groypers soon after the shooting and they posted about the gun death quote, Daily Kos been calling him a bigot and talking about how he got himself killed, there’s JImmy Kimmel (and some of his fellow hosts), Buzzfeed made a listicle of Charlie Kirk quotes, and Slate compared it to the Reichstag fire. There’s more, but just those probably have a bigger reach than any left-wing media, since the left is tiny.
Ultimately, I think giving Charlie Kirk more attention is counter-productive. Very few minds will change, at best Republicans will outrage farm with it.
you don’t need to spin it just read quotes from him instead of acting like he was some good-faith marketplace of ideas true believing pervert
I’ve got some good news, Buzzfeed posted a listicle doing just that the day after he died.
critical support to, ugh, buzzfeed
what exactly does proactive mean here?
Yeah I’m not really sure what he’s looking for here. Outside of it being used as an excuse to ruin people’s lives for not shedding crocodile tears over it I’m already pretty sick of hearing about it.
i’ve listened to podcasts nonstop talking about it. maybe diversify your sources
Bad Faith #509 is about criticizing the center-left media response, until the last 15 minutes or so where it takes a hard turn and becomes extremely uncomfortable yet cathartic
What do you want them to say exactly?
Chapo and trueanon were fine, QAA did a good ep I thought.
Are you saying they should be like playing the airhorn sound effect and cry-laughing?
Chapo, QAA and TrueAnon all covered it. QAA recorded their episode before the shooter was even found and Liv had to add a whole section in post to talk about him
I think media in general has covered Kirk far too much
Probably not what you’re looking for, but Hasan has been following it live since the beginning, for obvious reasons.
hasan seemed to cover it
