“Media paternalism at its worst.”

Independent journalist @kenklippenstein explains why he revealed the Luigi Mangione manifesto when corporate media outlets wouldn’t. percenttwitter.com/yRUK4PvTYl

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) December 16, 2024

Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein blasted mainstream media organizations for their refusal to put up homicide suspect Luigi Mangione’s manifesto as “paternalism of the worst kind.”

Homicide detectives arresting Mangione closing week, in relation to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was once gunned down in New York Metropolis, revealed a handwritten manifesto report in his possession criticizing the medical health insurance industry.

Releasing the manifesto in full on Dec. 10 by means of Substack, Klippenstein slammed main print and community shops for “selectively quoting” from the material however not publishing it in full and lambasted the “media’s go with the flow away from public disclosure.” He brought up the promotion of a pretend manifesto online as a purpose for publishing himself.

“Major media shops are additionally in possession of the report but have refused to put up it and no longer even articulated a this is why,” he wrote on the time. “My queries to the New York Times, The Washington Publish, CNN and NBC to explain their intent for withholding the manifesto, whereas gladly quoting from it selectively, have now not been answered.”

The police later demonstrated the manifesto printed by way of Klippenstein to be genuine.

Klippenstein used to be challenged on his determination to put up the document in full through Democracy Now host Amy Goodman on Monday.

The host started: “After we say that you simply had been the primary to put up the manifesto, you weren’t the first to get your arms on the manifesto. If truth be told, most media had their hands on it. Explain how you made that call to post it after they have been withholding it.”

The major media retailers, from the New York Times to The Post, CNN, ABC, all had their palms on this document, had been sitting on it, sharing it with themselves socially, which I know from my pals at these various shops, but refused to offer it to most of the people. And so when I obtained the document and browse thru it, I didn’t see any motive to not post it. And so I went beforehand and did that in keeping with what I saw as media paternalism at its worst, the judgment that this is safe for us to read, but it’s now not OK for the general public to read.

Requested about what within the manifesto used to be in particular newsworthy, Klippenstein mentioned the indication of reason in the assault. He endured to attack CNN for “looking to paraphrase” what was once in the document and other companies for trying to protect access in refusing to post.

The [manifesto has an] overwhelming focal point on the healthcare device as an establishment… That’s now not, of course, to assert that it’s ok to kill someone. I think that goes nearly with out announcing, to advance these targets. However to peer in this the truth that it wasn’t simply a completely random act of violence as, in reality, the most important media repeatedly asserted it used to be.

There’s one specifically egregious case through CNN in how they have been trying to paraphrase the contents of the document, again, without offering the underlying document to the public to to their very own conclusions, pronouncing that on this are the, you know, rantings and ravings of a crazy individual.

Whilst you read thru that report, which wasn’t that long, but it’s very clear from it that this individual used to be stimulated via grievances in regards to the well being care gadget. And so that’s why it’s necessary to get that out to the general public.

I feel that if you ask these major media retailers why they didn’t do that, the reasons fall along roughly two traces. One is that it’s now not safe for the public to have this. It could inspire copycat killings. I feel that’s similar to pronouncing violent video video games are going to cause kids to shoot up faculties – I’m very skeptical of that. However in addition to that, what I discovered all through my reporting on that report was that there were deals that had been struck with enforcement, which furnished this report to more than a few media shops through which they were essentially blackmailed into now not releasing these information as a result of they didn’t wish to alienate the sources that they depended on for no longer just this file, but different exclusives.

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