LEAKED NYT MEMO TELLING STAFF NOT TO USE LUIGI MANGIONE’S FACE IS MORE THAN STRANGE
Luigi Mangione, you probably heard, is the name of the person who killed a health insurance company CEO in public and in broad daylight in Manhattan recently. And the story of the murder stayed hot and heavy for days, especially as it took days for police to finally track him down for arrest in western Pennsylvania. But now we know his name, age, and that he’s supposedly an anti-capitalist Ivy League graduate. You can’t help but to have seen headline after headline talking about the manhunt, and then the arrest. So why is the NYT suddenly telling it’s staff not to show Luigi Mangione’s face in coverage?
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LUIGI MANGIONE ALSO HAD A MANIFESTO, AND MAJOR OUTLETS LIKTE THE NYT WON’T TOUCH IT
It’s odd, to say the least. And we only know about this because someone leaked the memo the NYT sent to its staff making the instructions clear: don’t show pictures of his face at all. Even odder is the fact that Luigi Mangione had a manifesto, and multiple outlets like the NYT had copies of it and for some reason refused to publish it or offer commentary about it. Now that’s odd, isn’t it? Because media outlets need to get views, clicks and subscriptions to make money. And having pictures of an educated white man murderer would help with that. Just as creating as much fanfare as possible about his manifesto would, too.
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ANTI-CORPORATE SENTIMENT WON’T DIMINISH FROM MEDIA HIDING LUIGI MANGIONE’S FACE
But it seems that this cold-blooded murder has inspired some concerns about further inspiring others who may harbor some anger at the corporate world to do the same: take violent action. While that’s a fair concern, it’s not really going to dampen the interest of those who are already angry and see Luigi Mangione as a person to stay interested in. And there will be a trial, though it’s not yet clear where that will be. Is the NYT really going to spend months, even years, avoiding showing Luigi Mangione’s face to assuage the corporate executive’s fears that clearly effect it’s reporting?
