Times management directs staff to “dial back” Luigi Mangione headshots
  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    7·
    6 hours ago

    The line between the people and the corporate/political elites is getting more defined and visible every day. I hope people notice.

    • underisk@lemmy.ml
      13·
      10 hours ago

      It’s because people are thirsting for him and it’s not the response they wanted. Attractive people are sympathetic.

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I do wonder if it would be same if he was ugly. I do admit him being hot makes me lean to his side, although I was alteady defending his ideals before the Internet revealed his shirtless pics.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Besides the New York Times’ inflated view of its ability to de-amplify a crime that practically everyone is already talking about, the internal chat sheds light on the other arguably bigger reason the media shies away from disclosure: its fear of antagonizing the sources it relies upon for scoops. “My source asked last nite that we not publish the whole thing,” reporter Andy Newman wrote in the Times chat.

      Thought after I read that: "When have they not done that?

  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    12 hours ago

    They should probably have a word to the prison he’s being held in then TBH. It’s like Paris Fashion Week over there with the amount of photos of him they’re taking.

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    411·
    20 hours ago

    here we have a rule that nobody publishes the name or face of people suspected of crimes. it’s allegedly “not newsworthy”. they all get called “the 35-year old”, “the carpenter”, “the third man”, until court proceedings are through and they are convicted.

    unfortunately, influence from overseas and people’s seemingly rising bloodthirst seems to be changing that.

    • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      14 hours ago

      I’m assuming “here” is somewhere other than USA. Your system sounds better for protecting the integrity of court proceedings…

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        12 hours ago

        He’s on the Niue instance. The ones with the piss flag

        🇳🇺

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      I think it’s relatively common in EU, unless the suspect has already been somehow outed, or has gone public. But typically, suspects and victims aren’t named.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    783·
    22 hours ago

    Alright NYT. You wanna dance? Let’s dance!

    If I ask a 3 year old with crumbs on his face, if he ate a cookie from the cookie jar, he may think he’s beating the system by not lying. By not saying “no”.

    Cookie crumbs on his face, mouth stuffed. Guilty look on his face. But he never lied. At that age, they don’t yet realize that by not answering the question, you answer the question.

    So, your plan to NOT publish his words, is to make us think he wrote dangerous things, and a hitlist. Your plan is to make our imagination do the dirty work for you.

    So until you publish in full what has been written by him, I WILL let my imagination run wild. I’ll assume that he wrote every positive thing that confirms my own biases and makes him a good person.

    Hey, did you hear what Luigi Mangione wrote? He admitted to volunteering his time helping the elderly. He admitted to being the face of the revolution. What revolution? The revolution where we care for the sick and disabled. The revolution of empathy. And he killed a man who openly chose humans to suffer for his own personal profit.

    That is what he wrote, and the new york times confirmed my biases. They won’t even show his face, because it makes TOO MANY panties wet. That is what I believe, and that is what NYT has confirmed. That is what I shall tell everybody, and we as a society will believe. We will continue this revolution of empathy, for all of eternity.

    Unless of coarse you want to publish, in it’s entirety, word for word, what he wrote. That sure would keep my imagination from running wild.

    • zephorah@lemm.ee
      3·
      12 hours ago

      This is the genius who left his plans in his browser history.

      Everyone lacks common sense here.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    453·
    22 hours ago

    Its a good thing all the merch and swag featuring him is exploding in popularity. Manufactured consent fucking denied, assholes :)