A Pakistani American man is murdered by two female black teenagers, but that's not national news.

Meanwhile, the Derek Chauvin trial begins, and the left's agenda is obvious. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

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over the course of this week, the trial of Derek Chauvin. He's the police officer in Minneapolis,

who infamously knelt on the neck of George Floyd for some eight minutes and 46 seconds.

That video, of course, went completely viral.

It spurred the largest protests in American history, some estimated 15 to 20 million Americans

in the street in the middle of a COVID pandemic. Our public health officials decided

randomly that that was now okay because, of course, racism was a public health crisis as well.

In any case, this is the biggest story in the country. It has been the biggest story in the country since that video emerged. And this raises the question, which stories become

national stories? A pretty simple question. Why do some stories become national stories,

and other stories do not become national stories. And the answer, quite obviously,

is the narrative. Because certain stories are national stories until they don't match the narrative,

at which point they sort of fall off the radar. And other stories stories are national stories until they don't match the narrative,

at which point they sort of fall off the radar, and other stories just stay national stories forever. So to take a perfect example, three weeks ago, all we were talking about in this country

was the Atlanta shooting where a white man killed eight people, including six Asian women,

and the story was supposedly anti-American, anti-Asian-American hate. And it turned out

the evidence just wasn't there to back it. We're not talking about that story anymore. Did you notice

how that story just disappeared? Nobody's talking about Atlanta anymore. Meanwhile, we are still

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