The murder in Las Vegas of retired California police chief Andreas Probst shows just how committed most media are to sidelining stories that don’t further the progressive agenda.
Probst was allegedly murdered while bicycling by two teens in a vicious hit and run.
The duo initially weren’t charged with homicide — but then a video they filmed in the car exposed them as cold-blooded killers, planning and giggling about the killing.
The video is hard to watch.
“Ready?” asks the driver — Jesus Ayala, 17.
“Yeah, hit his ass,” says the passenger — Jzamir Keys, 16.
And the killing was merely the capstone in a vehicular crime spree: The pair had already hit someone else that day with their car (that victim survived).
The crime is so violent, so nihilistic, one would expect a national spotlight on it.
Yet that simply hasn’t happened in the month since the killing.
The New York Times, Washington Post and CNN are all in the wind.
Yes, there has been some wider US coverage.
But much of that has centered around the attacks a Las Vegas reporter received on Twitter for an outdated headline in the obituary she wrote for Probst.
If this story fit into a favored prog category, such as “white cop kills black man,” it’d get blared to the heavens because it advances the progressive political project.
And as a result what may be the most disturbing aspect of the crime goes largely unmentioned; i.e. that the killers seem likely to have done it with the intent of posting it.
Seems “Deranged, Amoral Teens Murder Retired Cop for Likes” has no place in the media liberals’ preferred “narrative ecology.”
Nor does “Social Media Promotes Social Decay.”
All injustices deserve attention. Picking only the ones that push your political agenda forward should have no place in the press.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
