Please forgive the headline — it isn’t meant to make light of a political assassination, but to shine a light on the mainstream media outlets that keep doing exactly that.
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The latest is a report from Tuesday’s edition of the UK Daily Mail, which when it isn’t semi-glorifying political assassins, is usually the cheekiest and most entertaining tabloid in a country full of them.
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As you’ll recall, Luigi Mangione became something of a progressive folk hero last December, when he assassinated United Health CEO Brian Thompson outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel. I’m perfectly comfortable leaving out the “allegedly” because A) this is an opinion piece, and B) Mangione was found by police a few days later carrying a 3D-printed pistol, a homemade suppressor, multiple
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