JOURNALISTS POUNCE ON REPUBLICANS FOR NOTICING CRIME:
Republicans have done the unthinkable once again by noticing the senseless murder of an attractive young woman in Charlotte, N.C., and using it as an example to counter the Democratic view that crime is good and criminals are the real victims.
On Monday, Axios lamented that a video of the gruesome fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, who fled war-torn Ukraine for a better life in the United States, was “drawing repeated attention” from Republicans who believe that protecting innocent civilians is more important than coddling career criminals in the name of “equity” and social justice. The perpetrator, Decarlos Brown, was a mentally deranged homeless man with an extensive criminal record who had received lenient treatment under the Democrat-controlled justice system.
Axios reporter Marc Caputo pounced and seized on GOP officials and “MAGA influencers” for highlighting Zarutska’s tragic death—in a random unprovoked attack by a repeat offender who belonged in prison—in order to “elevate the issue of urban crime” and accuse mainstream media outlets of refusing to cover the case and other horrific acts of violence in cities run by Democrats.
For what it’s worth, the accusation of media indifference seems rather irrefutable given that Axios was one of the first national outlets to mention the fatal stabbing, which occurred on Aug. 22, in a story suggesting Republicans were at fault for noticing.
The New York Times finally deigned to cover the Zarutska stabbing today. Naturally, they go with the “Republicans Pounce” angle that the DNC-MSM have all triangulated on, if they’re going to report on this story at all: A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right.
CNN’s media janitor has chosen a similar approach as his form of anti-journalism:
And speaking of anti-journalism:
Other bastions of old media are attempting to memory hole this story as quickly as possible: Back to Bias by Omission: ABC, CBS Wave Goodbye to Covering Charlotte Light Rail Murder.