https://abc11.com/post/iryna-zarutska-woman-stabbed-death-charlotte-train-suspect-arrested-random-attack/17764197/
Last week a young woman who'd immigrated to the US to escape the war in Ukraine, was brutally stabbed on public transportation. There is video of the whole incident and really no question of what happened.
Strangely enough the killer is well known to the justice system because he's benefited from the revolving door policies instituted by many DA's over the past decade or so. He's only been arrested 14 times before this.
Of course the national media (the revered MSM) is virtually silent in it's coverage of the crime. When I googled this morning, there was not one story from any outlet that wasn't local.
What's even more ironic is that if a random passenger had intervened to save this young woman, and injured or killed this violent thug, the passenger would likely face charges (a al Daniel Penny or the Brits who took down a passenger on public transport).
In this case, the justice system and individual prosecutors and judges who let this guy out, absolutely bear responsibility for this murder.
https://www.wvtm13.com/article/timeline-damien-mcdaniel-muder-charge-firefighter-arrest/63922775
In other news, a black mass murderer gets literally zero national media coverage. Shocking.
On a somewhat unrelated note, I finally figured something out.
When most people have historically thought about what news is, we've thought that news is what happened. It's the actual events "Man Bites Dog". The event is newsworthy, regardless of the coverage. Now we see a mindset that defines news as "what is covered in a few selected MSM outlets". The difference is, I believe, that they focus on the coverage rather than the event. If X isn't covered by the MSM, then (by definition) it's not news.
https://people.com/woman-shot-dead-suspected-home-invasion-father-breaks-down-tribute-11728877
One more that doesn't fit the narrative, and therefore isn't talked about.
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I've seen side by side images of this thug about to plunge his knife into the totally unsuspecting girl, and one of Daniel Penny having the thug in a submission hold. Leftists in government were quick to charge Penny with murder for preventing murder.
As to what is news, I think the media has always chosen what constitutes news and to some extent, I have no problem with the concept. The problem I do have is with how the leftist media chooses what is or isn't news worthy and on what basis? Too often, the leftist media chooses on the basis of the narrative they support....such as "Orange man bad". In this case, I don't know I'd say that a local crime must be national news (regardless of how the crime assaults our personal sensitivities), but the narrative of the leftist media will highlight local news which helps them push their narrative and the Daniel Penny case was exploited to push the lefty narrative of white oppression against a poor mentally defective black man, while this recent atrocity was merely a mentally defective black man attacking a privileged white girl, which as everyone knows is not nearly as newsworthy (end sarcasm).
All news sources will choose on their own criteria what counts as "newsworthy". Time constraints impact how much is presented. But what's presented, how it's presented and for what purpose is not always to inform the public of what they need to know. With the left, it's too often what to shape public opinion.
That is a totally fair point. Penny and the Brits who did the same thing get prosecuted for trying to prevent this sort of thing, while this scum gets let off time after time until he finally kills someone. That actions like the Penny prosecution might have led to bystanders fearing repercussions for trying to prevent something like this, simply puts some responsibility on the shoulders of those who made that decision as well.
I'd disagree. The MSM has always chosen what news it will cover, and that phenomenon has been confused with the reality of the events. At one point the excuse of lack of time might have been a factor, but with 24/7/365 news channels, there's really not much excuse of not covering an event like this. Especially when the coverage that does show up (late) is complaining about the video being shown, not the attack. Further, the lack of response from the various government and faith leaders, or the excuses, make things worse. They all bowed before Saint Floyd, but not now.
At this point the MSM is less about unbiased reporting of current events, and more about pushing a narrative.
Obviously there are degrees of newsworthiness, but it really depends on what's driving the decision. When it's a left wing narrative, that's a problem.
The whole problem here is the hypocrisy of how things are covered and how the narrative is pushed.
Feo says your post is a lie because CNN reported on it.
Feo is an idiot. At the time I searched for links to this story, to satisfy Dan's irrational insistence that only "real journalists" are capable of reporting the Truth, there was no CNN story in my search. As I noted somewhere, the only national story I found was one complaining about people posting the video and perpetuating racism.
I agree with you wholeheartedly! One of my blog followers told me to take a look at Feo's blog and sent me the link. He's blog is about as bizarre as it gets with its LEFTIST ideology.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/charlotte-murder-conservatives-crime.html
So the NYT finally weighs in and goes after those who've actually been "reporting" on the actual crime, not the crime itself.
I'm not sure if the concept of a snapshot in time means anything to anyone. The reality is that the MSM initially ignored this story, until the fact that it was spreading without them forced them to do so. Even in=f there were one or two brief mentions on the MSM, the fact remains that this story is massively undrer reported compared to things like the Daniel Penny incident.
I immersed myself in that den of vileness, swill, and lies once or twice and decided that there was no reason to bother going back. At the time it was merely direct attacks on us. Dan claims to hate lying, yet allows the troll to spew lies and bullshit all over his cesspool.
Then we get media who says reporting on this crime is nothing less than racism!
I really don't think we're in disagreement here, with possibly the exception of 24/7/365 news channels. But even with that, the outlet is trying to give what it believes is news to different people at different times of day. Regardless, they're still choosing what news to report, how often to report it, based on their own criteria for determining what is newsworthy. The criteria one uses for selecting news sources is also really so important.
I would wager that what feo saw was late to the dance.
Probably not. The important part is remembering that the choices of the MSM of what to report aren't what makes something news. It's just what newsworthy events they choose to report based on the narrative they want to push.
24/7/365 "news" channels are (IMO) a plague on journalism. They have time to fill and choose to fill most of it with crap or simply repeating the same thing over and over.
As would I. He clearly doesn't understand that I wrote this at a moment in time, and what I wrote was as correct as possible at that time. The bigger point stands. That the revered MSM picks and chooses which stories to report on and stories like this that don't fit the narrative get ignored. Until they're forced to pay attention by the widespread dissemination of the news, and criticism.
This is why it's idiotic to pretend that the revered MSM are the only sources of "real journalism" and that there are not alternate options for accurate reporting.
I suspect that this is Art, because Dan (the only other regular anon commenter) would have insisted that this reporting was racist.
Strangely enough the canonization of St Floyd and the demonization of Derek Chauvin weren't racist by this bizarre metric.
Actually, it wasn't me.
Conversely, I heard Van Jones say there's no evidence of racism in the case of the asshole who stabbed the young Ukrainian girl to death. Of course not. How could there be? There were two potential victims who were black sitting on the other side of the aisle.
OK, it's not Art, so Anonymous please ID yourself.
The fact that the vermin said "I got the white girl" could not be an indication of racism in any way.
What I find interesting is that the race angle, to me, is secondary or tertiary to why this is important.
The most important angle, IMO, is the leftist obsession with keeping career criminals on the street.
Second is the MSM coverage compared to other, similar, crimes. That Daniel Penny got wall to wall coverage for protecting people on public transit, while this got virtually zero, indicates that the MSM is more interested in narratives than anything else.
Third, this guy should have been involuntarily committed years ago, but that's not an option.
Fourth, no "assault rifle", no news.
Fifth, the disproportion in blacks committing crimes compared to their representation in society.
Jones is clearly a racist, who doesn't belong on a national media platform.
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