{"id":2484444,"date":"2025-09-09T21:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karoline-leavitt-shames-reporters-to-their-faces-over-iryna-zarutska-coverage-highlights-clear-double-standard\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:41:19","slug":"karoline-leavitt-shames-reporters-to-their-faces-over-iryna-zarutska-coverage-highlights-clear-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karoline-leavitt-shames-reporters-to-their-faces-over-iryna-zarutska-coverage-highlights-clear-double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt Shames Reporters to Their Faces Over Iryna Zarutska Coverage, Highlights Clear Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkaroline-leavitt-shames-reporters-to-their-faces-over-iryna-zarutska-coverage-highlights-clear-double-standard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2484444&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At a recent White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sharply criticized mainstream media for their lack of coverage on the brutal stabbing murder of 23-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-compares-ukrainian-war-refugees-to-migrant-crisis-at-americas-southern-border\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Compares Ukrainian War Refugees to Migrant Crisis at America&#039;s Southern Border\">ukrainian war refugee<\/a> Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina. She condemned the media for intentionally ignoring the story because it did not fit a preferred narrative, highlighting a racial double standard: Zarutska was white and her alleged killer is Black, and Leavitt argued that had the races been reversed, the case would have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-senate-republicans-freedom-caucus-accuse-biden-administration-of-downplaying-early-covid-19-treatments\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Senate Republicans, Freedom Caucus Accuse Biden Administration Of Downplaying Early COVID-19 Treatments\">received widespread media attention<\/a> and extensive coverage.<\/p>\n<p>leavitt contrasted this with the intense media scrutiny given to the 2023 case of Daniel Penny,a white Marine veteran who was vilified despite acting in self-defense when restraining a violent individual,who was Black. She accused many journalists of focusing on political agendas rather than reporting on actual crimes. LeavittS comments sparked notable discussion on social media about perceived media bias and selective reporting. the briefing emphasized the failure of establishment media to provide balanced news coverage and called out their manipulation of narratives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the White House news briefing on Tuesday, Karoline Leavitt let the Washington press corps have it.<\/p>\n<p>The White House press secretary is already known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/reporter-dismayed-karoline-leavitt-crushes-stupid-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speaking her mind<\/a> to the faces of the activists who pass for journalists in the establishment media.<\/p>\n<p>But on the subject of the gruesome murder of a Ukrainian war refugee in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August, Leavitt was scathing.<\/p>\n<p>Calling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/play-play-video-leads-murder-iryna-zarutska-reporters-last-sentence-jaw-dropping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the savage stabbing<\/a> of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska by a 34-year-old career criminal named Decarlos Brown Jr. a &ldquo;tragedy that has not received nearly enough media attention,&rdquo; Leavitt blasted the reporters in the room as well as their employers for avoiding the story.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Here are the facts that many outlets have shamefully and intentionally failed to report,&rdquo; Leavitt said.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\")); 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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BREAKING: Leavitt Castigates Journalists To Their Faces Over Lack Of Iryna Zarutska Killing Coverage\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4qzy6x0uZyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After describing the circumstances surrounding the stabbing, Leavitt summed up the situation neatly:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is pure evil on full display,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>But she didn&rsquo;t stop with the man who held the knife.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And perhaps most shamefully of all, the majority of the media, many outlets in this room, decided that her murder was not worth reporting on originally because it does not fit a preferred narrative,&rdquo; Leavitt said.<\/p>\n<p>Every honest American who heard her words &mdash; regardless of personal politics &mdash; knew exactly what she meant, and that the double standard of news coverage was in effect.<\/p>\n<p>Zarutska was white. Her alleged killer is black.<\/p>\n<p>Had the victim been black and the killer white, there&rsquo;s no question that the story &mdash; with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/play-play-video-leads-murder-iryna-zarutska-reporters-last-sentence-jaw-dropping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">real-time surveillance video component<\/a> &mdash; would have been highlighted in every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/establishment-media-outlets-crash-without-donald-trump-in-the-white-house\/\" title=\"... ... Crash Without Donald ... in the ... House\">establishment news outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The media would have featured flood-the-zone coverage, including, no doubt, chin-stroking think pieces on how the murder personified the inherent racism of the American public &mdash; and how, surely, President Donald Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/deploy-national-guard-ukrainian-beauty-fled-war-stabbed-death-train-charlotte-city-80-dem-led\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">somehow to blame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the establishment media met Zarutska&rsquo;s killing with largely collective silence, only turning attention to it when Trump himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-trumps-personally-case-learning-evil-murder-ukrainian-refugee-lunatic-14-court-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commented on the incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And even then, the story was about the politics of the case &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mainstream-media-finally-covers-unprovoked-murder-iryna-zarutska-adds-disgusting-spin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">framed in a classic<\/a> &ldquo;Republicans pounce&rdquo; format.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/08\/us\/charlotte-murder-conservatives-crime.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>: &ldquo;A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/09\/08\/iryna-zarutska-stabbing-video-republicans-maga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a>: &ldquo;Stabbing video fuels MAGA&rsquo;s crime message.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On CNN&rsquo;s &ldquo;News Central&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/cnc\/date\/2025-09-08\/segment\/09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Monday<\/a>, the loathsome Brian Stelter &mdash; CNN&rsquo;s &ldquo;chief media analyst&rdquo; &mdash; claimed that &ldquo;Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, other Trump aligned figures succeeded in making this senseless death a symbol of big city crime.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt was particularly effective comparing the indifference that greeted Zarutska&rsquo;s killing with the national spotlight on the case of Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/daniel-pennys-attorney-reveals-life-altering-trauma-client-went\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went on trial<\/a> in Manhattan and faced a prison sentence after restraining a violently disturbed man who was threatening a subway car full of passengers in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Penny is white. The man he killed &mdash; an act <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/harrowing-details-new-subway-chokehold-court-filing-get-daniel-penny-case-thrown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that was unintentional<\/a>, by all the evidence &mdash; was black.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Many of the journalists in this room spilled plenty of ink trying to smear Daniel Penny for defending a subway car from a deranged lunatic in New York City, but none of those same reporters lifted a finger to write stories about an actual murderer,&rdquo; Leavitt said.<\/p>\n<p>The scene lit up on social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN: Karoline Leavitt SHAMES &ldquo;reporters&rdquo; to their faces for REFUSING to cover the kiIIing of Iryna Zarutska<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Many of the journalists in this room spilled PLENTY of ink trying to SMEAR Daniel Penny for defending a subway car from a deranged lunatic in New York City, but&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xH6FyGxQkB\">pic.twitter.com\/xH6FyGxQkB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksortor\/status\/1965469903445778658?\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good job <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?\">@PressSec<\/a> &ndash; the MSM is evil<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elizabeth Helgelien (@ElizabethForNV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElizabethForNV\/status\/1965470446683578589?\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The lying media needs to be taken down. Not sure why they are still allowed to spew lies and get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &#127800; MAGA B &#127800; &bull; (@TGrammie2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TGrammie2\/status\/1965502420605436130?\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&rsquo;m glad that the media is being called out so much for this. I can&rsquo;t wait until the MSM is a thing of the past and we never have to hear their propaganda masquerading as &ldquo;journalism&rdquo; ever again.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cory Corson (@Cory_Corson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cory_Corson\/status\/1965472515956113513?\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The days have long been gone when gatekeepers of mainstream media could effectively decide what news Americans would hear and what they would not.<\/p>\n<p>But the decisions by <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >establishment news media outlets remain rooted<\/a> in the idea that what is not reported <em>by them<\/em> does not qualify as news.<\/p>\n<p>In the technological context of the internet, that&rsquo;s impossible to maintain. In the political context of the second Trump presidency, when mainstream outlets forfeited their credibility during Trump&rsquo;s first term, it&rsquo;s a disaster for them to even try.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt called them out on it. Any American paying attention knows exactly how true it was.<\/p>\n<p>And for all their self-imposed blindness, the so-called journalists in the briefing room had to know it, too.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Known for her candidness toward what she called activist journalists in mainstream media, Leavitt was especially harsh regarding the brutal killing of Ukrainian war refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, last August. She described the stabbing by career criminal Decarlos Brown Jr. as a &#8220;tragedy that has not received nearly enough media attention&#8221; and condemned reporters and their outlets for ignoring the story.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt emphasized that this was &#8220;pure evil on full display&#8221; and accused much of the media of deliberately avoiding coverage because it didn&#8217;t fit their preferred narrative-pointing out that Zarutska was white while her alleged killer is black. She argued that if the races were reversed, the case would have dominated news cycles with extensive coverage and commentary blaming systemic racism and political figures like Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, mainstream outlets largely remained silent until Trump commented on it, after which coverage focused mainly on political angles portraying Republicans negatively. Leavitt contrasted this with intense media scrutiny over Daniel Penny-a white Marine veteran who faced trial after defending a subway car from a violent black man-highlighting what she saw as a glaring double standard.<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks sparked significant reaction on social media praising her for calling out biased reporting. 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