{"id":478390,"date":"2021-05-06T13:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=478390"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:36:04","slug":"npr-reporter-says-her-job-requires-a-bulletproof-vest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-reporter-says-her-job-requires-a-bulletproof-vest\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Reporter Says Her Job Requires \u2018A Bulletproof Vest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnpr-reporter-says-her-job-requires-a-bulletproof-vest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=478390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-180967643.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>For most people, a job as a reporter for National Public Radio would be a safe and prestigious vocation. But NPR\u2019s national correspondent for abortion and politics believes it\u2019s a hazardous war zone that requires a bulletproof vest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>NPR correspondent Sarah McCammon wrote on Twitter:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p><i><span>My bulletproof vest that I may need to be a journalist in America arrived and they sent me a Small and I had to adjust it to make it a little smaller and for a moment I was happy that I was too small for my bulletproof vest that I need to do journalism in America<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>She deleted her original comment, but not before others had taken a screenshot.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.5176470588235\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why did you delete it? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IIODEkllnX\">pic.twitter.com\/IIODEkllnX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 neo_fish (@neofish3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neofish3\/status\/1389730741282480129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>Having read the original tweet, I\u2019d say your run on sentence writing skills are on point<\/span><span>,\u201d said one commenter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McCammon<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahmccammon\/status\/1389621795121205251\"><span>did not delete her response<\/span><\/a><span> to her original tweet, though: \u201cClearly, these things are made with big dudes in mind because I\u2019m not a tiny person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A respondent said that the bulletproof vest probably did not fit her petite frame, \u201c<\/span><span>because men are drastically over-represented in the most dangerous jobs (I don\u2019t mean journalism)<\/span><span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another pointed out that McCammon\u2019s beat is safer than the assignments of other journalists:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Stolen valor. Why not send it to a journalist who actually is in danger, but who can\u2019t afford a vest? Our neighbors in Mexico who cover cartels for instance? #collegecreatesstupidity<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>Bulletproof vests are \u201c<\/span><span>made for people [who] might be shot,\u201d said yet another. \u201cNot narcissists who have been brainwashed.<\/span><span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McCammon should not fear evangelicals, whose culture she knows intimately. She grew up attending a Christian school in Kansas City, Missouri, but <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/current.org\/2016\/10\/how-sarah-mccammons-religious-upbringing\/?wallit_nosession=1\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> in 2016 that \u201c<\/span><span>I have come away with a different view of the Bible than what I was raised with \u2026 I still really value it, just in a different way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve sort of changed my approach to faith,\u201d she said. <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><span>I\u2019ve become much more comfortable with not always having firm answers,\u201d including whether God exists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She now provides taxpayer-funded NPR with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/04\/14\/987131269\/biden-administration-moves-to-undo-trump-abortion-rules-for-title-x\"><span>less-than-balanced<\/span><\/a><span> coverage of abortion and religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McCammon did not specify which of those two groups she believes will kill her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both the Obama and Biden administrations have tried to portray the pro-life movement as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/planned-parenthood-rm-pro-life-extremists-creating-james-barrett\"><span>hive of domestic terrorists<\/span><\/a><span>. In April 2009, the Department of Homeland Security issued a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/irp\/eprint\/rightwing.pdf\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> on \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2010\/10\/pro-life-the-fbi-is-watching-you\/\"><span>Rightwing Extremism<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d which claimed likely sources of domestic terrorism \u201cinclude groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.\u201d It also warned agents about \u201cDisgruntled Military Veterans.\u201d On March 1, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/21_0301_odni_unclass-summary-of-dve-assessment-17_march-final_508.pdf\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> warning of \u201cabortion-related violent extremism,\u201d which stemmed from \u201cideological agendas in support of pro-life or pro-choice beliefs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The nation\u2019s pro-life leaders agree that the movement is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/the-importance-of-non-violence-in-the-pro-life-cause\/\"><span>firmly committed to nonviolence<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McCammon previously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lol-feminist-case-against-awesome-fireworks-gets-amanda-prestigiacomo\"><span>made news<\/span><\/a><span> by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahmccammon\/status\/750062605784449024\"><span>tweeting<\/span><\/a><span> that setting off fireworks on Independence Day seemed bizarre. \u201c<\/span><span>Isn\u2019t it sort of messed up that we celebrate our freedom by pretending to blow things up? Like a strange, collective working out of trauma,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3717277486911\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Isn&#8217;t it sort of messed up that we celebrate our freedom by pretending to blow things up? Like a strange, collective working out of trauma.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarah McCammon\ud83d\udcfb (@sarahmccammon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahmccammon\/status\/750062605784449024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>NPR has not always been averse to violence and inflicting trauma itself. During the height of the BLM riots last summer, NPR invited author Vicky Osterweil to discuss the thesis of the book \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/right-wing-myth-leftist-author-defends-looting-to-npr-trashes-small-business-owners-as-not-part-of-community\"><span>In Defense of Looting<\/span><\/a><span>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA business being attacked in the community is ultimately about attacking like modes of oppression,\u201d Osterweil said on the public airwaves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>National conservatives launched a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/life\/time-defund-npr-journalism-cars\/\"><span>mini-campaign<\/span><\/a><span> to abolish NPR after<\/span> <span>reporter Hannah Allam erroneously reported a wave of \u201cright-wing extremists\u201d ramming innocent protesters with their vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many believe the federal government has no constitutional authority to operate media outlets. The late Congressman Phil Crane, R-IL, regularly introduced bills to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/amendment\/105th-congress\/house-amendment\/345?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22broadcasting%22%2C%22broadcasting%22%5D%7D&#038;s=2&#038;r=12\"><span>defund<\/span><\/a><span>, and then <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/104th-congress\/house-bill\/208\/text\"><span>abolish<\/span><\/a><span>, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If McCammon feels threatened by covering the pro-life movement, she could comfort herself by realizing she\u2019s not the only person involved in abortion who could use protection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ben Johnson (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRightsWriter\"><i><span>@TheRightsWriter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>) is the Media Reporter at The Daily Wire. He previously worked at the Acton Institute, FrontPage Magazine, and LifeSiteNews. He\u2019s the author of three books, including Party of Defeat (2008, with David Horowitz).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most people, a job as a reporter for National Public Radio would be a safe and prestigious vocation. 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