MEDIA LOSER: NPR NPR is having a bad day on Twitter thanks to its own now-deleted post on the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, hospital officials said,” NPR tweeted on Friday. Twitter users promptly blasted NPR for smearing Abe, one of the United States' top allies and Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister, when announcing his death. "Former journalism outlet NPR, a divisive arch-douchefactory and some of the nation's most ill-spent tax monies, has tweeted about an assassination," Mediaite's Caleb Howe wrote alongside a screenshot of the NPR tweet. While NPR deleted the tweet, their second attempt wasn't much better. “Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese prime minister and ultranationalist, was killed at a campaign rally on Friday. Police tackled and arrested the suspected gunman at the scene of an attack that shocked many in Japan,” tweeted NPR. Once again, the outlet came under fire for their post, as pundits decried NPR's simple change from "divisive arch-conservative" to "ultranationalist." "This is like peeing on a bed after you just changed the sheets because you voided your bowels in it," cracked podcaster and columnist Derek Hunter. "How are you so bad at not being a douche?" |