Why is the media hiding the fact

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Why is the media hiding the fact the Mormon Church Shooter's social media is riddled with pro-MAGA sentiments? Do they think they can bury the truth forever?

[LizBeth]

1. Right. Saw one of FB reading different posts and the paragraph saying big MAGA

he ignored and did not highlight though clearly there MAGA. there were three different posts he read info off and refused to say MAGA. Repug, yes. MAGA, ... ignored it. Was so fuckin weird.

[progressoid]

2. Tut tut tut. We don't want to politicize this.

Let's send some thoughts and prayers first.

[Mysterian]

3. Why do people continue to ask elementary questions about the billionaire-controlled corporate media?

https://www.freepress.net/who-owns-media

[bucolic_frolic]

4. My simple take

is they don't emphasize the polarizing aspects of shootings. They report political affiliations quietly for fear of emboldening other potential violent miscreants. Whether this is their own policy as media consortium, or a hint from authorities or the Feds, who knows. But I get it like you do that we get the short end of this stick because the violence so far has been mostly from the right.

[llmart]

15. They surely didn't minimize any polarizing aspects of Kirk's killing.

It became in-your-face, 24/7 polarized reporting.

[Gimpyknee]

25. Kirk who?

[Torchlight]

26. Nope

[llmart]

27. Kirk - the dead one.

Good news is he's still dead.

[IronLionZion]

32. Captain James Tiberius Kirk of course

Terrible Tragedy



Charlie Kirk the right wing podcaster who recruited college students for MAGA

[KS Toronado]

33. And it was all lies

The GQP could not find one left-leaning organization the shooter belonged to, plus they down played
or ignored all his conservative ties.

[Champp]

5. Yes, they think they can bury the truth

and keep on making money while on their knees kissing the darkside

[Nigrum Cattus]

30. just look at the epstein files -

and the environment
and the economy
and immigration
and (fill in the blank)

[FakeNoose]

6. The media was so disappointed to find out he wasn't an antifa terrorist

... after that, they lost interest.

[Sneederbunk]

7. No mention of when and where shooter radicalized by rw ideology.

[70sEraVet]

47. Right, like how many years of FOX news,

how many Joe Rogan podcasts?

[Kaleva]

8. The media is a for profit business

They’ll put out what attracts viewers and minimize or ignore that might cost them viewers and thus revenue.

[popsdenver]

16. More importantly

The media is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Uber Rich Republicans and Republican Corporations......they own 95+% of all media in the U.S.
If all the people that work for them, including the reporters and journalists, want to keep their jobs, they will write shit, (literally) that pleases their owner.........

[gordianot]

35. The real Antifa I knew in childhood are all deceased.

Unfortunately Fascist are still thriving they have made gains in the country that got rid of them even the so called leftist in the old Soviet Union have embraced pure Fascism.

[popsdenver]

39. Same here gordianot

My father who was a ground troop for over three years, in NAfrica, France, and Italy, is kicking in his grave trying to get out and confront these Fascists........

I am sure he would tell us all, that he watched many of his fellow soldiers give their lives to defeat Fascism, so we would always have our Beloved Democracy.......

[Kaleva]

38. Yes

[Endlessmike56]

9. I'm sure that the media will give the victims of the shooting

non stop coverage, flags across the country will be flown at half mast, there will be a moment of silence before all the football games this weekend and a national day of mourning will be declared.🙄

[Coldwater]

10. The administration is all about

hiding the truth.

Poor jobs and employment report, fire Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief and replace her with someone willing to stretch the truth.

Food insecurity for millions of Americans: stop publishing the statistics and food insecurity will go away.

Number of Americans living in poverty: Fire your chief statistician, stop publishing the statistics and poverty will be eliminated

[Torchlight]

11. Doesn't really fit the politically correct narrative

Conservatives are having a difficult time looking competent while preaching peace yet simultaneously killing people.

[usonian]

12. "Inconvenient" facts

1. HATE IS BLIND

When you unleash it, you can't control it. And thanks to brainless leader saying:

REVENGE FOR CHARLIE KIRK

He got it, in the most horrific way.




2. and BY THE WAY, the root cause of the HATE PARADE?

[Emile]

13. The so called liberal media, is waiting for Trump to report blame on evil democrats.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

14. The media is trying to decide which version of "Silence is Golden" to play:

The Four Seasons or the Tremeloes version!

[popsdenver]

40. They will NEVER play

WE ARE ON THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION, no matter how applicable......(can't remember the artist)

Side Note: During the Cheney/Rumsfeld Regime, all the right wing radio stations were issued a DO NOT PLAY LIST of 100 songs that they were afraid the 60's generation would resurrect for their IRAQ war LIES......

[yellow dahlia]

17. I said to Mr. Dahlia earlier -

the only place I have seen reporting that there was a "tRump" sign on his property is DU.

A couple of posts yesterday had google earth photos.

[Wiz Imp]

42. The Guardian reported it

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/mormon-church-shooting-trump-sign

Mormon church shooting suspect had Trump sign outside home, records show
Google Maps images show suspect who was shot dead by police had Trump sign outside his Michigan house

...
Images on Google Maps taken in June show that Sanford had a blue sign with Trump’s last name attached to a shed on the side of his house in Burton, Michigan, about a 15-minute drive from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints authorities say he targeted Sunday morning.

The placard, first reported by the Daily Beast, was propped up above a red stop sign. The image of the placard was too unclear to tell definitively whether it also displayed the last name of Mike Pence or JD Vance – Trump’s running mates during his three presidential campaigns since 2016.

Meanwhile, a family photo posted on Facebook shows Sanford posing alongside his wife and 10-year-old son wearing a Re-elect Trump 2020 T-shirt. The shirt from when the first of Trump’s two presidencies ended in defeat to Joe Biden carries the logo “Make Liberals Cry Again”.
...
Yet Democratic consultant Mark Grebner told the Bridge Michigan news outlet that Sanford had signed two political petitions. Grebner, according to the outlet, said one was for the 2021 “Unlock Michigan” effort to repeal the pandemic emergency powers of the state’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. And Grebner reportedly said the other was for a 2020 push by the group Right to Life Michigan to restrict abortion in the state.

[yellow dahlia]

43. Thanks! Love the Guardian.

[Wiz Imp]

44. Yep. They have better news coverage than any news outlet in the US!

[catbyte]

18. YouTube has better coverage, ffs.

[twodogsbarking]

19. Perhaps they are afraid of our legal systems and the illegal systems that have replaced them.

[617Blue]

20. You'd think this could provide a lot of content but they are in the GOP tank.

[FarPoint]

21. Media is no longer based upon journalism....

Our Media today is a propaganda driven source of stories provided to those who pay the most for said message.

[maxsolomon]

22. Which Media is "hiding" that information?

MSNBC?

NYT?

The Cleveland Plain Dealer?

All of them in concert through a grand conspiracy?

Surely, you understand that RW Media will let it go unmentioned, unless they could accuse the Left of complicity.

[SocialDemocrat61]

23. Because the corporate media

is corrupt

[quakerboy]

24. They can and will

There was once news that held itself to standards. Problematic and incorrect standards, at times, but standards.

Now there is media, with ownership.

[JustAnotherGen]

28. They are magapub propagandists

That doesn't fit the narrative that they have been order to provide by the regime/admin.

[samsingh]

29. because whichever reporter brings it up will be fired by the dishonest traitorous owners

[IronLionZion]

31. Typical liberal going deep undercover as MAGA

Wait for the shell casings to be engraved with some cryptic nonsense that is totally evidence of liberalism.

[LymphocyteLover]

34. I think we know why.

[KPN]

36. Good question. "Why is the media hiding the fact..." And we should all keep asking it loudly and consistently

if for no other reason than to broaden awareness and hopefully dispel some of the popular fantasies of an objective and a "liberal media".

[choie]

37. Are Democrats out there

yelling this to the rooftops like the maga republicans have ew Kirk? No. Perhaps if they did, some of the media would run with it.

[Skittles]

41. they KNOW they can bury the truth

the media only cares now if the victim is a racist celebrity or the shooter is an immigrant / trans

[live love laugh]

45. The truth shall indeed set us free ... if it is told. We're hostage to lies.

[ybbor]

46. He worked for my MAGA brother

Got a text yesterday from my niece saying my brother, her dad who also works there, not the one who is the boss, knew him. Don’t think he was still working there, but apparently his wife is. He said he was pissed about the CK killing and was saying crazy shit the other day. He’s cousins with a family I went to school from first through high school with. They are my brother’s business partners. I was really good friends with them back then, but they are full on cult members, and on Saturday I was talking politics with one of my sisters and said that they had become pretty awful, and that my brother was just getting fed more crap by associating with them daily. Full on MAGA!

[lostnfound]

50. The shooter was pissed and vocal about the CK killing? Or the wife, or your brother?

“ He said he was pissed about the CK killing and was saying crazy shit the other day”

That would be an angle that I haven’t seen discussed.

[ybbor]

51. The shooter was pissed

Probably the others, too. But my apolitical brother said that “Jake” was pissed about it, and had been vocal about it.

[Scubamatt]

48. The media is owned

mostly by right wing companies. When Rush Limbaugh started screaming in the 1980s that the media was liberal, that framing stuck and so now the combination of ownership concentration and the perverse desire of the media to bend over backwards to prove they are not liberal means that criticism of anything right wing is silenced. If we ever get the reins of government back, we need to bring back a muscled version of the fairness doctrine for starters.

[Tetrachloride]

49. LSD