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Dec 2024
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Luigi Mangione's Mainstream Media Villai...

Erika Heidewald
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The news coverage of the Luigi Mangione story seems to exist in a different reality from the conversation happening among the public on social media because regardless of whatever part of the political spectrum they supposedly represent, the mainstream media is owned by billionaires and beholden to corporate interests. Let's analyze what happens when reality tv and the news become indistinguishable and our billionaire overlords create their own reality by giving regular people the villain edit in real life.
 
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