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From reddit: Brian Thompson was a drunk driver, insider trader, fraudster, and separated from his wife for years (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/whitepeopletwitter
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[โ€“] Quexotic 179 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Normally, I'd say it's poor taste to speak ill of the dead. Normally.

That's not what the motivation is here. The media are

  • aware that the family can bury them
  • afraid to lose their jobs
  • beholden to their ~~masters~~ shareholders (or their Rupert Murdochs)
  • trying to make this go away
  • not on the side of the American people
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

For media companies it's not usually shareholders that call the shots, it's one obscenely rich old guy, like Rupert Murdoch.