Commentators like the New York Times’ Bret Stephens have called slain CEO Brian Thompson a “working-class hero.” You don’t have to condone murder to see through that ridiculous claim about a man who was at the helm of a legalized extortion racket.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    And yet, just as now, the press drove public opinion. PR is everything and I don’t know why people don’t get that.