One of the media’s worst habits is its urge to contradict everything President Donald Trump says simply because he says them. NPR had a rather comical example of this phenomena on Wednesday as it ran a headline saying Trump was wrong to say two astronauts on the International Space Station are stranded despite three previous NPR articles saying they were stranded.
Under the headline “Trump asks SpaceX to ‘go get’ two stranded ISS astronauts. They’re not stranded,” Brendan Byrne cites a Trump social media post, “I have just asked Elon Musk and SpaceX to ‘go get’ the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social. ‘Good luck Elon!!!’”
A displeased Byrne continued, “The astronauts Musk and Trump are presumably referencing are NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. NASA…
