This Fourth of July sure has a lot of people triggered. Kristine Parks reports for Fox News that NPR broke its longstanding tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence and instead had a discussion of the meaning of equality. “Morning Edition” host Leila Fadel made the announcement and said it would be an “important segment about our past and our future.”
This July 4th we break with tradition. Instead of a reading of the Declaration of Independence @NPRinskeep examines what equality means and has meant in this document. Important segment about our past and future…produced by @marcarivers and @bgordemer https://t.co/MxlgNaWpC1
— Leila Fadel (@LeilaFadel) July 4, 2022
NPR celebrates the Declaration differently this year – reading key passages aloud, and also reading the words of Americans through 246 years who’ve quoted and called on the national creed. @NPR https://t.co/S1DAtpvi49
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) July 4, 2022
Parks reports:
National Public Radio (NPR) announced it was breaking its long-standing 4th of July tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence to instead discuss “what equality means.”
For the past 33 years on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” NPR staff have celebrated America’s birthday by reading the founding document. However, co-host Leila Fadel announced on Twitter that this year they were scrapping that tradition to analyze what Thomas Jefferson meant by “all men are created equal.”
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In the broadcast, the NPR host tied the fight for equality to recent rulings by the Supreme Court, like Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
“And many of our debates on this July 4th turn on what equality means. What voting rules really give equal access to the ballot. Do abortion laws give a woman equal control of her body? At what point is a fetus entitled to equal rights?” Inskeep asked.
Without providing explanation, Inskeep said that Republicans wanted “unequal voting power” and connected that idea to the “global move toward authoritarian rule.”
An outright bias by taxpayer-funded NPR? No way!
NPR today ended decades of tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on this day. https://t.co/C4jeWNz19A Instead, it had a discussion over equality in light of election reforms and changes to abortion. https://t.co/88k7YltrEX
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 4, 2022
…It is another lost opportunity to share a common article of faith of all citizens from 1776 that is renewed annually by every generation. Even with our divisions, we should be able to have one day to remember a historic and bold leap of faith in each other.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 4, 2022
One good chance to bring people together and they have to go there.
— Martqbd (@dalipals_martin) July 4, 2022
This is how a great nation falls happening right in front of us.
— Tenpa Dhargyal Gashi (@RangzenOrDeath) July 4, 2022
The Declaration has gotten very uncomfortable for them. Always the (small) chance that someone will actually listen and begin to reflect on the notion that liberty and license really aren’t the same things! @NPR
— Diogenes (@Diogenes43055) July 4, 2022
NPR now MSNBC acting like they aren’t. They were always a bit arrogant, but that was OK because they did really smart reporting with really smart people. All gone now.
— Fred (@DennyMoller1) July 4, 2022
They suck
— bob (@robert678ABC) July 4, 2022
They really do. And we’d bet you the people who work there are so deep inside their bubble they actually consider themselves mainstream.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 21, 2022
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