Why is the Media Coverage of Luigi Mangione So Bad?

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The remarkable dissonance between the public’s embrace of UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione and the mainstream media’s outward disdain for both Luigi and the public’s martyrization of him has been… bizarre. In a rare moment where the culture war has been traded in for the class war, billionaire-owned media corporations and politicians alike seem to be panicking. That panic should be a moment of clarity for everyday Americans. Support me + listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Listen to Taylor’s podcast, Power User. Subscribe to Taylor’s newsletter, User Mag. Subscribe to Ken Klippenstein’s Substack. Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at www.factormeals.com/fruity50. Start managing your money better and cancel unwanted expenses at www.rocketmoney.com/fruity. Me on Instagram. A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have a good intro line for you. I have a really good intro line for you, I think.
0:03.7	Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFruity, the podcast where we answer the question that keeps
0:09.9	New York Post writers up at night. What does Taylor Lorenz really think?
0:15.8	I thought that was good.
0:19.3	It was good. Oh, my God.
0:21.6	Yeah, they've been on me lately.
0:28.9	So if you followed the release schedule of this podcast closely, which I realize that matters more to me than it matters to any of you.
0:36.2	You would know that this should be an off week.
0:38.7	Usually I upload every other week.
0:39.9	That's how we do this here.
0:41.3	But sometimes in the media landscape of political news,
0:46.8	something happens that is so ridiculous, so egregious,
0:50.4	so tugs at my anxieties about the way that media works and functions right now, that I feel
0:57.3	compelled to sit down in front of this camera and squeak into the mic for anyone who is willing to hear.
1:05.8	The last time I did an episode like this was during the campus Gaza protests when everyone in the media made it
1:13.2	look like these students who were doing something completely reasonable and respectable and based
1:18.3	in the history of protest made it look like they were just like radical fringe insane
1:23.8	anti-Semitic like all of this stuff and I sat down and I made a similar episode and today
1:30.2	we are doing that about Luigi Mangione if you've been online the last few weeks which if you're
1:38.2	listening to this podcast there's a definite chance that you have been you are probably aware of the
1:43.9	stark difference between the way the internet and largely
1:48.5	the public has reacted to Luigi.
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