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From reddit: Brian Thompson was a drunk driver, insider trader, fraudster, and separated from his wife for years (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 178 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Normally, I'd say it's poor taste to speak ill of the dead. Normally.

That's not what the motivation is here. The media are

  • aware that the family can bury them
  • afraid to lose their jobs
  • beholden to their ~~masters~~ shareholders (or their Rupert Murdochs)
  • trying to make this go away
  • not on the side of the American people