Note from Ace: While we wait to hear about Charlie Kirk, and wait for the next MSNBC incitement to leftwingers to assassinate more Republican normies, TJM has some thoughts about the Iryna Karutska slaying.

Of course, it didn't actually blow up as a news story until this weekend when the police released the footage from the train of the murder. Not footage that's hard to parse with crowds or action in the corner of a frame. Center-frame violent murder, even with the actual second of the act cut out in the initial release (the actual murder footage has also been released, and it's...brutal), the image of Decarlos Brown's arm fully extended and swooping in with a knife to an unsuspecting girl is potent, the kind a written description will never be.

And it did blow up. It blew up on social media. News organizations ignored it as long as possible, hoping it would go away, but once Elon Musk xeeted about it a dozen times and even President Trump mentioned it more than once, and the mayor of Charlotte put out a statement on it, the media finally felt the need to report it, mostly framing it as nasty MAGAts using murder to advance a narrative.

The centerpiece of this reaction has to been Sex Machine Brian Stetler's rant about how the murder wasn't newsworthy (also that the attention to the story is racist because leftist logic).

And it got me thinking. What is newsworthy?

Well, here's what the Columbia School of Journalism defines as newsworthy by Jack Fuller:

My proposed definition of news includes several elements that are not wholly subjective (though this does not mean they are unambiguous): timeliness, interest for a given community, significance. These look beyond the journalists' personal prefer�ences outward to phenomena in the world that can be dis�cussed, if not measured.