{"id":2572204,"date":"2026-02-21T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-news-covers-fire-at-renee-good-memorial-after-ignoring-lefts-defacing-of-charlie-kirk-tributes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:52:34","slug":"cbs-news-covers-fire-at-renee-good-memorial-after-ignoring-lefts-defacing-of-charlie-kirk-tributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-news-covers-fire-at-renee-good-memorial-after-ignoring-lefts-defacing-of-charlie-kirk-tributes\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News Covers Fire at Renee Good Memorial After Ignoring Left&#8217;s Defacing of Charlie Kirk Tributes"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fcbs-news-covers-fire-at-renee-good-memorial-after-ignoring-lefts-defacing-of-charlie-kirk-tributes%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=2572204&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>The article argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-democrats-election-heist-too-big-to-fail\/\" title=\"Is the Democrats\u2019 Election Heist \u2018Too Big to Fail\u2019?\">mainstream media\u2019<\/a>s credibility has deteriorated due too selective reporting, using CBS News\u2019 coverage of memorial vandalism as a focal example. It notes CBS\u2019s thorough report on the Renee Good memorial fire in Minneapolis, including local voices and even a reaction from lawmakers, suggesting strong coverage in that case.By contrast, it claims CBS and other outlets largely ignored vandalism of memorials for Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a claim amplified by <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >social-media posts alleging<\/a> a lack of mainstream attention. The piece argues this inconsistency signals biased standards and erodes trust in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">legacy media<\/a>. It concludes that in a competitive details landscape, credibility is currency, and selective amplification drives audiences to seek information elsewhere.  <\/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><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not exactly a well-kept secret that the establishment media is as untrustworthy and in as dilapidated a state as it&rsquo;s ever been.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fox-news-reigns-supreme-obliterated-cnn-msnbc-combined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, all of the other legacy cable news networks are struggling to keep eyeballs glued to the television sets.<\/p>\n<p>And if you look at the way CBS News covered two different memorials, you&rsquo;ll start to better understand exactly why.<\/p>\n<p>To wit, CBS News put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/renee-good-memorial-fire-south-minneapolis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> this week covering the vandalism that allegedly occurred at the memorial for Renee Good.<\/p>\n<p>(For the unfamiliar, Good was the Minneapolis woman who died after an altercation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in early January.)<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); 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\t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>To its minimal credit, CBS News put in its due diligence for the report, speaking to locals and officials about what very much appeared to be an arson attack.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This was a clear case of arson in my opinion, and I hope whoever did it is held accountable,&rdquo; one independent photojournalist on scene told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did they cover the incident at hand, the network and its local affiliates dedicated breathless coverage to this attack.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vXzipDP7BaM?si=DS67AMc0g5cccj6Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CBS News&rsquo; story even caught the attention of lawmakers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Last night the memorial for Renee Good was set on fire and destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Renee&rsquo;s family and the Minneapolis community deserve the chance to mourn her. This is unacceptable and we must hold anyone involved in this hateful incident accountable.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bd2f9oWYRf\">https:\/\/t.co\/bd2f9oWYRf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Angie Craig (@RepAngieCraig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAngieCraig\/status\/2024242248955642087?\">February 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was quite a bit of coverage, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a vacuum, there&rsquo;s nothing wrong with that. A popular memorial being defaced&nbsp;<em>is <\/em>a newsworthy subject, and should have articles and videos produced on it.<\/p>\n<p>So&hellip; where was CBS News when Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s memorial was vandalized by hooligans across the country?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CBS News didn&rsquo;t say a DAMN THING about ALL the billboards in western North Carolina, that were vandalized in the wake of Charlie Kirk&lsquo;s death<\/p>\n<p>In fact, not a single mainstream media outlet picked it up.<\/p>\n<p>Not one.<\/p>\n<p>I am so sick of this crap.<\/p>\n<p>Screw all of you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sTOYyboB0L\">pic.twitter.com\/sTOYyboB0L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattvanswol\/status\/2024478060695724256?\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, Kirk memorials&nbsp;<em>were<\/em>, in fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aqucbePqxts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vandalized<\/a> across the country. But CBS News? They apparently had their heads buried in the sand.<\/p>\n<p>If you search for &ldquo;Charlie Kirk&rdquo; in CBS News&rsquo; search engine, and sift through all the way back to the news covering Kirk&rsquo;s tragic assassination in September, you&rsquo;ll find exactly one story about any Kirk memorial.<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/charlie-kirk-carnegie-mellon-university-pittsburgh-fence-honoring-tradition\/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story<\/a> was simply stating that Carnegie Melon University students had honored the late Kirk. That&rsquo;s it.<\/p>\n<p>This is the problem in a nutshell. When one memorial is treated as a five-alarm moral emergency and another is met with near-total silence, viewers notice. It&rsquo;s not about whether vandalism of memorials is bad &mdash; it very obviously is. It&rsquo;s about whether the standards are consistent.<\/p>\n<p>If the outrage meter only spikes when the victim fits a preferred narrative, the press stops looking like an arbiter of facts and starts looking like a participant in politics.<\/p>\n<p>And that perception has consequences. Trust in legacy outlets has cratered over the last decade, and it&rsquo;s not because Americans suddenly lost interest in current events. It&rsquo;s because selective amplification and selective silence erode credibility brick by brick.<\/p>\n<p>When audiences can perform a simple search and see what was covered &mdash; and what wasn&rsquo;t &mdash; the gap between rhetoric and reality becomes impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>The media can continue pretending this asymmetry doesn&rsquo;t exist, or it can reckon with why so many Americans have tuned out.<\/p>\n<p>In a hyper-competitive information landscape, credibility is currency. 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It uses CBS News as an example, claiming its coverage of memorial vandalism shows a biased emphasis. Specifically, it cites CBS News\u2019s report on vandalism at the Renee Good memorial (Good being a Minneapolis woman who died after an ICE encounter) and describes the reporting as alarmist or sensational, noting that an independent photographer on the scene framed the incident as arson and urged accountability. The author suggests CBS News and its local affiliates gave very extensive coverage to this attack, and even drew attention from lawmakers, citing a tweet from Representative Angie Craig.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the author argues that CBS News ignored vandalism of memorials for Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, which occurred across the country. The writer claims no major media outlet picked up those stories, and that CBS News\u2019s own archive shows only one piece about any Kirk memorial\u2014briefly noting that Carnegie Mellon University students had honored Kirk. 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