New York Post: Tracking the Assassination and Its Media Fallout

Showing 50 New York Post videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The New York Post's coverage of Charlie Kirk tracked two distinct stories running in parallel: the assassination and its investigation, and the media fallout that followed, most notably Jimmy Kimmel's monologue mocking Trump's response to Kirk's death, which triggered an FCC-adjacent pressure campaign, affiliate pullouts, and ABC's eventual cancellation of the show, a sequence the Post covered as a genuine free-speech and media-accountability story rather than only a culture-war skirmish. That same instinct for tracking institutional accountability extended to its earlier reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop, a story the paper broke years before the New York Times finally confirmed its authenticity, giving the outlet a specific credibility argument it returned to often: that its scoops eventually got vindicated by outlets that had dismissed them.

On Kirk specifically, the Post's coverage ran from the raw, disturbing footage of the shooting itself through the split national reaction, genuine grief from supporters alongside open celebration in parts of the online left, treating that gap as itself one of the story's central, unresolved facts. Across both threads, media accountability and the assassination's aftermath, the paper's consistent approach was documentary rather than heavily editorialized: assembling the record and letting the contrast in reactions make its own case.