CEO LIVES MATTER: THE MEDIA FREAKOUT

TAYLOR LORENZ is an American journalist who writes the Substack blog Users Pays. She was previously a columnist for the Washington Post and a technology reporter for the New York Times and the Daily Beast.

 In the aftermath of the killing of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, Lorenz wrote a column titled 'Why we want insurance executives dead'. She was immediately attacked by the corporate media as endorsing murder. But Lorenz also wrote that she did mean that people should murder health insurance executives but 'if you've watched a loved one suffer and die from insurance denial, it's normal to wish the people responsible would suffer the same fate.'

She also wrote:

'Let me be super clear: my post uses a collective "we" and is explaining the public sentiment. It is not me personally saying 'I want these executives dead and so we should kill them.' I am explaining that thousands of Americans (myself included) are fed up with our barbaric healthcare system and the people at the top who rake in millions while inflicting pain, suffering, and death on millions of innocent people.'

Abby Martin talks with Taylor Lorenz about the media frenzy over the killing of Brian Thompson, media literacy in a landscape dominated by propaganda and censorship, and the corporate media's pro-Israel bias.

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