From the Associated Press (AP): Charlotte leaders criticized over killing of Ukrainian woman as Trump, MAGA target another Dem city.
From the New York Times: A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right.
From BBC News: Fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina ignites crime debate.
From The Hill: Duffy: Rise in public transit violence an ‘epidemic’
From Axios: Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message.
I’ve mentioned a couple of times the horrific stabbing of that 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte NC light rail train last month. Until clear video emerged of the event, the murder remained a local news story.
But since then, left-leaning media first tried to ignore the story, then frame it under “Republicans pounce,” “crime statistics are dropping,” “the mental health crisis,” and other distracting narratives.
Fox News notes perhaps the most appalling version of this phenomenon,
CNN’s Brian Stelter says ‘pro-Trump activists’ seized on Charlotte stabbing, rips ‘baldly racist’ comments.
Noticing is racist.
“I have to say, some of the replies to [Elon] Musk, some of the comments around this story are baldly racist, stoking fear of African Americans because this man attacked a White woman,” Stelter told CNN’s Brianna Keilar. “The open racism on sites like X today, it’s eye popping.
With George Floyd, when the demographics were reversed, we were told by CNN and other outlets that 5,000 years of civilizational norms had to be discarded to address the underlying issues raised in the case. Stelter now tells us,
Most murders in the U.S. never become national news.
Which is true, except when it isn’t. Why does Stelter and CNN (or the AP, or the New York Times, or the BBC) get exclusive say on which ones are national news?
