As we reported on Saturday, some of the credentialed journalists, journolists as we see them, really don’t like it when other journalists do something really radical like report the facts. The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. I use the term ‘journolism’ frequently when writing about media bias.

Yesterday, a 15-year-old Hispanic boy was shot and killed, shot ten times, making it an obvious hit, not far from Samuel Fels High School. Here’s the story from Fox 29 News:

Police: 15-year-old chased down Philadelphia street, shot to death in broad daylight

Published March 13, 2023 1:27PM | Updated 10:17PM

PHILADELPHIA – A 15-year-old is dead after police say he was chased down a Philadelphia street by a group of gunmen and shot at least 10 times.

Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department were called to the 6100 block of Algon Street around noon Monday for reports of a shooting.

Police found a 15-year-old boy shot five times in the torso and five times in the leg, according to investigators. The boy was rushed to Albert Einstein Medical Center where he died.

Three different ballistics were recovered at the scene, leading investigators to believe that there may have been three shooters.

Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore told reporters that surveillance footage shows the victim being chased down the 6100 block of Algon Street by at least three people.

There’s more at the original.

Screenshot taken at 8:23 AM EST. Click to enlarge.

I normally cite stories from The Philadelphia Inquirer, but when I looked for that story, on the newspaper’s website main page, about a 15-year-old boy being murdered in broad daylight, what I found on the Inky’s website main page was, as you can see in the image on the right, absolutely nothing!

The Inquirer’s specific crime page? Again, nothing? Our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper, serving the nation’s sixth largest city and seventh largest metropolitan area, winner of twenty Pulitzer Prizes, which frequently reports on “gun violence” in general, couldn’t be bothered to cover this story . . . or at least didn’t want to publish it.

It’s not as though there was no time to cover it; the killing occurred just after noon yesterday, and was available as a news story within an hour. The Fox 29 story is time stamped at 1:27 PM EDT on Monday!

Was it because the victim was listed as Hispanic? We don’t know, from the reports, whether he was white or black; Hispanic ethnicity can be of any race. If the victim was white, the Inky would probably classify him as “brown.”

There was, however, this, from Jenice Armstrong, the Inquirer columnist cited in Victor Fiorillo’s Philadelphia magazine article as saying of Steve Keeley, “His Twitter feed is also disturbing”:

Local anti-gun violence activist very nearly became a statistic himself

It has been more than a month since the shooting, but Brandon Chastang remains deeply shaken by his close call.

by Jenice Armstrong | Monday, March 13, 2023 | 6:00 AM EDT

A local activist says he recently nearly became a victim of the very thing he is fighting against.

Brandon Chastang was driving around West Philly around 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 31 when he noticed a car behind him. “I was just checking out the community,” Chastang told me. A social media influencer with 120,000 Instagram followers and known around town as “B.McFly” — which stands for Being Motivated Comes from Loving Yourself — the former substitute teacher produces content about the importance of peace, sobriety, and community.

That day in January, Chastang assumed at first that the driver was someone he knew, trying to get his attention. As he stopped at 55th and Sansom, the motorist pulled up next to him and yelled, “Do you have a f— problem with me?!” Startled, Chastang said that he responded, “I’m good. Everything’s OK.” But everything wasn’t OK: The motorist pulled out his gun and began firing.

Chastang, who told me he has a gun permit, fired back, and the other motorist eventually drove off. Luckily, Chastang was unhurt but rattled, his silver 2020 Chrysler 300 riddled with about 10 bullet holes.

There’s more at the original, telling us what a good guy Brandon Chastang is, and how he’s an “anti-gun violence activist,” but Miss Armstrong says nothing at all about the irony of an “anti-gun violence activist” carrying a firearm himself.

When Philadelphia police arrived on the scene, “the first thing I said was, ‘I’m licensed to carry. Someone was trying to kill me, and we were literally in a shootout,’” he recalled. “Everybody in the community was coming out, like, ‘We know him. He’s a positive, sober messenger. A motivator.’”

Chastang, who also recounted his story on Fox News and on KYW News Radio, told me he believes that the fact he was armed saved him. “If I didn’t have a firearm to protect me, I probably wouldn’t be here today,” he said. But that doesn’t mean he wants to take someone else’s life; on many of his Instagram videos, he wears a T-shirt proclaiming: “I don’t wanna kill you, I wanna heal with you.”

As we have previously noted, there has been a major surge in the number of applications for a license-to-carry a weapon in Philadelphia, because law-abiding people are just plain afraid of the thugs and gang-bangers — though the Inky previously told us there were no real gangs in the city — and wannabes, so that even those opposed to “gun violence” are themselves carrying guns. If Miss Armstrong saw any irony in that, it didn’t make her column.

It kind of makes me wonder whether Miss Armstrong is licensed and carrying. I wonder how many of the #woke staff are packing.

As I close this article, at 9:40 AM EST, the Inquirer’s website still has nothing on the murder of the 15-year-old boy. The newspaper continually rails at “gun violence,” but sticks its collective fingers in its collective ears when it comes to reporting on actual murders.
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Update! 5:21 PM EST

The Inquirer finally mentioned the story . . . 28 hours after it happened!

A 15-year-old Kensington High student was killed in a shooting in Northeast Philly this week

Neko Rivera, a student at Kensington High School, appeared on an Instagram page honoring his life as a boy who enjoyed spending time with this family.

by Ellie Rushing | Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 4:50 PM EDT

A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in Northeast Philadelphia on Monday, adding to the concerning trend of young people whose lives have been claimed by gun violence.

Neko Rivera, a student at Kensington High School, was near the 6100 block of Algon Avenue, in Oxford Circle, when police say three gunmen chased him through an apartment complex and shot him 10 times. Responding officers rushed him to Einstein Medical Center, where he died a short time later.

No arrests have been made, and the motive for the shooting is unclear, said Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore.

One of Rivera’s relatives, overwhelmed with grief, declined an interview Tuesday. An Instagram account set up to honor his life, called NekoForever2023, showed the teen smiling and spending time with his family and enjoying the occasional Phillies game.

There’s more at the original. As usual, the Inky scrubbed the ethnic identifier from the story, but they included a photo of him, seen above, so they really weren’t hiding anything.

Much of the story is not about young Mr Rivera, but statistics for other kids killed in the City of Brotherly Love. At least the Inky published something, even if it was a day late.
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