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Within hours of the reports of Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination in Utah this week, people took to social media to respond. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic<\/em> joined to discuss what the online reaction to Kirk\u2019s death could expose about the discourse surrounding modern American political violence.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we see\u2014and have seen so many times before\u2014after acts of political violence: this sense of regret, this sense of \u2018We need to pull it back; this is going too far,\u2019\u201d Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times<\/em>, said last night. \u201cYou heard a lot of people say that this week on Democratic and Republican messaging\u2014but not in the way that\u2019s necessarily going to change things in an enduring way.\u201d<\/p>\n Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic,<\/em> Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times<\/em>; Laura Barr\u00f3n-L\u00f3pez, a White House correspondent at MSNBC; Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker<\/em>; and Tom Nichols, a staff writer at The Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p>\n Watch the full episode here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Within hours of the reports of Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination in Utah this week, people took to social media to respond. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss what the online reaction to Kirk\u2019s death could expose about the discourse surrounding modern American political violence. \u201cWhat we see\u2014and have seen so many times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[8850,12585,1226,4804],"class_list":{"0":"post-21114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-assassination","9":"tag-kirks","10":"tag-questions","11":"tag-raises"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}