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Who’s the media? I don’t follow a lot of news and I didn’t know Mr Kirk until last week.

People are in these media bubbles where they’re amped up all the time. Each side does a lot of name calling.

Each group boils it down to us vs them.

Who is "the media" in this context? MSNBC just let someone go for even suggesting Kirk deserved what happened. If anything, it seems at least mainstream media is very conservative about the labels it assigns to political speakers.

Here’s exactly what was said.

“”” “We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration,” MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd told anchor Katy Tur shortly after Kirk was shot at a Utah university Wednesday “””

Nb this was said when this was breaking, and they didn’t even know anyone had been shot yet.

It wasn’t her hearing he got shot in the neck and going “lol maybe it was celebratory gunfire and bad luck?”

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