RT | Henry Johnston
The US mainstream media tends to operate by encouraging a certain prefabricated outrage. Sensationalized narratives are cultivated along predictable tracks. But no less egregious is what the media chooses to ignore. Few
events of late have better exposed the ideological underpinnings of the
media - and of the elite whose narratives it plugs - than the recent
brutal and shocking murder of a young Ukrainian woman on a train in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
On August 22, a career
criminal, Decarlos Brown Jr., casually walked up behind 23-year-old
Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was seated on a train minding her
own business, and stabbed her three times in the neck in cold blood,
killing her. He sauntered away, still clutching the knife dripping
blood.
The mindless and savage attack was captured on
surveillance footage, but Charlotte's Democratic Mayor Vi Lyles pushed
for it not to be released, ostensibly out of respect for the victim's
family. But the footage did eventually surface, and the story spread
like wildfire. But this was a wildfire that couldn't reach the
impervious redoubt of the mainstream media - even after Elon Musk gave
it the push into viral territory by chiming in on an End Wokeness thread pointing out the stunning media silence.
In fact, not a single major legacy outlet - the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Reuters, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and others - picked it up...
