NPR correspondent scorched over tweet suggesting journalists in America require bulletproof vests
Sarah McCammon was ripped by Special Forces veteran, commentators, other Twitter users
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An NPR correspondent deleted a tweet Tuesday after she was ridiculed for claiming her job "as a journalist in America" requires a bulletproof vest.
"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," Sarah McCammon wrote.
The abortion and religion correspondent for the outlet later deleted the tweet, but not before setting off a social media firestorm over the perceived physical danger that she claims to regularly face in the U.S.
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"@sarahmccammon I'm guessing this is disingenuous. If it's not, you don't need a bulletproof vest, you need therapy, because you've been damaged by propaganda and can no longer make reasonable risk assessments because of it," one user wrote.
"Ordering a bulletproof vest for my podcast. Can never be too sure these days in America," conservative commentator Stephen L. Miller quipped.
Jim Hanson, the president of Security Studies Group and a Special Forces veteran, pointed to data from the Committee to Protect Journalists, which found that 11 journalists had been killed in the U.S. between the years of 1992 and 2021.
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"How about My bulletproof vest that I need to maintain an inflated sense of danger & my own importance," Hanson wrote alongside the tweet.
"As someone who has actually been attacked while doing my job in the field, I don't think I need a bulletproof vest," Breitbart reporter Chris Tomlinson wrote. "It's literally only something you need in an actual war zone. Or maybe a 'mostly peaceful' protest."
"You do not need a bulletproof vest to be a journalist in America, this is really stealing valor from people who do...." wrote user Zaid Jilani.
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"I sincerely would like to know: Where in America do you need a vest to be a journalist?" asked Daniel Acosta Rivas. "I grew up in Venezuela were both my parents were journalists, so I know a little about threats to journos and honestly this tweet just seems like you’re looking for attention"