Is a life in New York City more important than one somewhere in flyover country? Most rational, sane people would say that it's not necessarily. Sure, a nun's life in the Big Apple might matter more than a pedo in Oklahoma, but all else being equal? No real difference.
And I think most in the media would say something along those lines if asked directly.
However, it's easy to say things. You can't judge people merely by their words, but by their actions, and as Real Clear Politics' Tom Bevan noted, their deeds suggest something different.
Today is a good example of the media's inherent bias toward itself, meaning the NY/DC axis where most companies are HQ'd & most reporters live.
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) July 29, 2025
4 people were killed in NYC, and every news org is swarming the story.
Meanwhile, 3 people were shot & killed in a casino in Reno,…
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Meanwhile, 3 people were shot & killed in a casino in Reno, and you have to search to find a mention.
Also missing from most of the national media is the mass stabbing in Michigan, which was only stopped when it was due to an armed citizen stepping in and ending the rampage, holding the suspect until police arrived.
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For some reason, that hasn't made nearly as much news, either.
Weird, ain't it?
Now, there are some differences between these three stories, to be sure, but is one life all the difference between a shooting making national headlines or being lost in the news cycle?
Or is it because if something doesn't happen in New York City, Washington, or maybe Los Angeles, it doesn't really matter?
Yes, the media has latched onto mass murders in other states, but let's also be real here, they tend to relegate it from lead-story status unless it's someplace like New York or it's got a high body count. If it bleeds, it leads, after all, and blood is going to change the math a bit. Sure, it might be national news, but it's only the lead story for about eight seconds before something bumps it unless there's a lot of death.
Unless, of course, there's a push for more gun control that could use a little more umph. Then, all bets are off.
Right now, though, they know gun control isn't going to happen, so they weren't worried about Reno. But New York City is, in their minds, the center of the world, and thus this is so much worse.
It's not. It's worse, sure, but only because one more person got killed, and one of the dead is a police officer. That's it. That's the totality of the real, meaningful difference.
And, of course, that New York's gun control did nothing to stop this, and no amount of crying that the guy came from Nevada is going to change that simple fact.
Somehow, I suspect that's going to be left out of the narrative, too.
Where he came from? Sure. The laws he broke by crossing into New York? Not so much.
Remember, no matter how much you hate the mainstream media, you don't hate them enough.
