Monday, September 15, 2025

NPR reporting - inaccurate summary of day old gubernatioral press conference with no current widely reported details

Running errands this morning and end up having to wait fifteen minutes in the car.  I turn on NPR to see how things are going since they lost their federal funding.

Only hear one report.  This was from the local station reporter in Utah regarding the Charlie Kirk assassination.

There were several notable things.

First was that the reporter was vocally challenged.  She kept starting and then rephrasing sentences.  It gave the appearance that she was realtime self-editing, trying to avoid reporting specific information.  Information already known to the listening audience because it is already widely reported.  

Second was that she steered completely clear of anything that was not reported from the Governor.  All the information which is readily widespread (shooter in relationship with trans person, shooter with established left perspective, etc.) was unreported.  

Third, relying solely on the Governor, the report was essentially a summary, incomplete and with omissions, of the Governor's most recent speech from yesterday.  

Fourth, after the reporters incomplete and somewhat misleading summary of the Governor's last update, they cut to a clip from the Governor's update from yesterday.

Maybe it was just the challenge of using a stringer from a local affiliate but the whole report that I listened to was an incomplete, to the point of inaccurate, summary of a day old update from the Governor with no current information from any of multiple other sources.  

Or maybe it was just their normal self-blinkered rendition of a reality unpleasantly at odds with their hopes and dreams.  

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