Journalistic skepticism isn’t magically exempt when someone dies

  • [R3D4CT3D]@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    how can we get that mugshot?

    “In April of 2017, the same month he became CEO of UnitedHeathcare’s Medicare & Retirement business, Thompson pled guilty to drunk driving, for which he served a couple days in jail at the Hennepin County Adult Corrections facility in Minnesota and later probation.”

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    Why is it that I feel, even if had no other impact on my work productivity; my employer would fire me if I were arrested and spent a few days in jail for DUI

    or am I just being silly?

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    I hope those “Journalists” at least have the decency to feel gross while carrying out the orders of their masters.

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      The journalists who do that are black-listed from professional work and now have to give overly self-censored presentations on YouTube where they have to pray they won’t be flagged for something that could be mistaken for a vague reference to… anything negative.

      I hate how Youtube is so censored that it basically has more rules than Cable TV

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    It’s hilarious how the moderators are Lemmy, specifically world, or removing anything about this. I’ve gone back to update several comments just to find the entire post was removed.

    Seems like the new tactic is: let them say whatever they want but remove it later because moderation is too hard on a comment by comment basis

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    we need to deploy the “he was no angel” tactic the media usually uses against victims of police violence.