This editor was finishing up a piece on the Atlanta shooter who killed one person and injured at least four others at a hospital when this tweet by Matthew Yglesias floated past:
It’s true that the media doesn’t have a principled basis for deciding which acts of violence become national news, but it’s crystal clear that the media has a clear basis for deciding which crimes make the news cycle. Plenty of Democrat politicians, especially The Squad, are making sure the death of Jodan Neely on a New York City subway stays at the top of the headlines. Curiously, the Washington Post’s headline made the races of the individuals involved perfectly clear without even having to skim the story.
As we’ve mentioned, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already declared the Marine veteran who held Neely in a chokehold guilty of murder. She went on to blame all of the things she could do something about were she a member of Congress representing New York: homelessness, hunger, rent, the militarization of the police at the expense of social services, and more. Sounds like a horrible place to live.
Which stories get national news coverage? Well, we all know the name Jordan Neely now (the Michael Jackson impersonator), but Matt Walsh wonders if AOC was as upset over the 11 people who were murdered on the subway last year:
If they cared about him, they wouldn’t have put him back on the streets after 44 arrests.
We haven’t heard much about the Atlanta shooting Thursday. The woman killed was Amy St. Pierre.
Unless we’ve missed it, the usual gun control activists haven’t been as loud about this shooting.
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