The ritualized rifling through old internet accounts usually muddies the story more than it informs the public.
It's a weird headline, but the discussion is around how journalists and the public look through internet history in cases like this. Some of it is helpful, some of it is not.
Monday night, NBC News published an article with the headline “’Extremely Ironic’: Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Slaying Played Video Game Killer, Friend Recalls.” This article is currently all over every single one of my social media feeds, because it is emblematic of the type of research I described above. It is a very bad article whose main reason for existing is the fact that it contains a morsel of “new” “information,” except the “information” in this case is that Luigi Mangione played the video game Among Us at some point in college.
I've played Postal 2 extensively when I was 8y old and I only piss in peoples mouth at work. I don't even remember when it was the last time I went shopping and burned some alive with a gasoline.
Funny, how much hand wringing is going on in the sweaty mainstream media about a guy who merely put down a vicious oligarchy-loving killer. You'd get the impression that media moguls are worried that they're next.
Funny, how much hand wringing is going on in the sweaty mainstream media about a guy who merely put down a vicious oligarchy-loving killer. You'd get the impression that media moguls are worried that they're next.
It's a sign of the time that we're living in. When people find joy in the death of others in a society, the quality of living is exceptionally bad. It's reminiscent of Rome too where the last years of their society were filled with chaos
Did prosecutors seriously talk about among us like it is this game that only psychos play? The game is fun! In fact I think I am gonna play it tonight!
I don't play the game very often, but it is a fun game. Even more fun when I am the imposter! Normally I get assigned the boring task as being a regular deck hand.
Ah yes, the continued trend of the media in the US to shit on gaming as the ills of society's problems, because someone up the chain is scared it makes more than Hollywood slop
The article reads like regular internet bad behavior.
there is rarely a single story everyone is talking about and where it is impossible to hold anyone’s attention for more than a few minutes at a time…
Exactly what the press contributes to.
Goes on to suggest digging through old accounts, maybe finding the right person of interest, making stuff up based on what you find, then harassing people associated with the person.
If you've noticed, they're doing everything they can to make him look less attractive. Shitty aspect ratios, bad white balance, editing the picture, terrible focal lengths....
They're scared. It's hilarious, because they're so blatantly obviously scared.