Well, here we go again: a viral, racially charged, brutal street assault leaves a woman unconscious in Cincinnati — and the three major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) collectively shrug.
No coverage on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, CBS News Mornings, Evening News, Today, or Nightly News. Not one second, according to the Media Research Center. And now Fox confirms — nothing on Thursday either. Sure, ABC and NBC threw a write-up on their websites, and NBC’s streaming service gave it a blip. But the big shows? Radio silence.
Why? Let’s not kid ourselves: NewsBusters calls it like it is. The victims were White. The attackers were Black. That doesn’t fit the media’s preferred narrative, so the story disappears into the memory hole.
Meanwhile, the video is horrific. It shows a man in a polo shirt being swarmed, beaten, stomped — while he’s on the ground. When a woman tries to intervene? She’s knocked out cold. Photographs show her bloodied, bruised, and unconscious. Her name’s Holly, and she’s lucky to be alive.
Police have arrested five people. Among them? Montianez Merriweather, a convicted felon with a laundry list of priors, and Jermaine Matthews, another man with a rap sheet. Prosecutors say the two coordinated the assault. Oh, and Merriweather? He was out on bond for a stolen gun case when this happened.
But instead of outrage over repeat offenders brutalizing strangers in the streets, what do we get from city leaders? The police chief blaming “social media” for making the fight “look bad.” And a city councilwoman reportedly claiming the victims “begged for that beat down.” Seriously.
Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno blasted Cincinnati leadership on Fox News: “These idiotic political leaders … need to go.” He’s right.
So let’s take stock:
– Two violent men, one out on bond, attack strangers in the street.
– A woman gets knocked unconscious.
– The footage goes viral.
– National news? Nothing.
Imagine if the racial roles were reversed. Every network would have been live from Cincinnati for a week. Politicians would be holding press conferences. It would be treated as a national crisis.
But because this doesn’t advance the preferred storylines of the legacy press? Silence.
