Media ‘dropped the ball’ on Kirk shooting coverage: Concha
Media ‘dropped the ball’ on Charlie Kirk assassination coverage: Joe Concha
Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha criticized the people who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death and said the media “dropped the ball” on its coverage of the conservative activist’s assassination.
Concha slammed the media’s coverage of Kirk’s assassination, specifically CBS and MSNBC.
“The media has, on this, dropped the ball completely,” Concha said on Monday during Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime. “They were great after 9/11 (and) we’re a long way from 9/11 and unity because of social media and gaming, because this shooter thought he was looking at an avatar and not a human being and a father.”
Concha criticized the comments MSNBC anchor Katy Tur made during her broadcast in the moments after news broke that Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University.
Concha said Tur raised questions during her broadcast whether the Trump administration and Republican politicians were going to “exploit Charlie” for “political gain.”
During the coverage, Tur asked then-MSNBC commentator Matthew Dowd “about the “environment in which a shooting like this happens.”
“We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration. So we have no idea about this,” Dowd said in response.
The network fired Dowd and apologized, calling his comments “unacceptable.”
Concha also slammed the people who have been celebrating Kirk’s death online.
“All these people who are doctors, lawyers, professors going online and celebrating the death of a man who was the father of a 3-year-old girl, a young 1-year-old boy, a loving husband to a beautiful, courageous, fearless wife in Erika, and the only son of a mother and father,” Concha said. “If I saw that kind of celebration, Jesse, they would be gone out of my company in a millisecond.”
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He said he’s “terrified” and “mortified” by “these freaks” on BlueSky and in legacy media.
Concha praised the debates that Kirk organized on college campuses across the country. He said all Kirk wanted to do was have “open conversations,” debate, and “embrace” the first amendment.
“Charlie Kirk did something no one on the left would ever do. Brace balls going onto college campuses and debating people who disagree with him. Find me one person on the left that does that and you win valuable prizes,” Concha said.
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