UHC CEO shooting media coverage
It's really something else that the UHC CEO shooting is so polarizing and the victim so toxic to the idea of positive press that all the media coverage is matter of fact and rote about finding the shooter.
Usually by now if someone with Money is assassinated in this way, we'd be seeing tear-jerker stories about the victim's life and their value to the community, parading their crying families in front of the cameras for impressions and clicks.
They're not doing that. If they're not doing that because this guy truly had nothing of value to showcase, or because anything favoring him and the system he supports would be PR poison, I'm unsure. Maybe a combination of both. So far the only people saying anything about him directly are other insurance tycoons.
A rich white guy got shot and all the media is talking about is how his shooter got away and how the system he helped run is kind of shit actually. It's so very alien to see in the US.
UHC CEO shooting media coverage
@trysdyn The shooter's becoming a modern robin hood in many circles, and his mark was a cartoon villain. The amount of backpedalling this has produced in insurance--from cancellation of particularly heinous policies to blanket approvals of previously denied claims--has clear hallmarks of moneyed people realizing that they too are mortal
I don't want it to stop here, but I am already so pleased with how much change this has effected
UHC CEO shooting media coverage
@elfi It's definitely a stack that won't be disassembled with mere PR and "market forces"
I feel like any turn is a combination of fear of the media watching them and a desire to set one entity out as "the good one" while everyone is looking. So any change this brings about is temporary as it sits now. The way I see an actual change brought by this is if it's reinforced that the last resort against a system that constantly abuses people is physical retaliation; yup.
UHC CEO shooting media coverage
@trysdyn I heard there was a bit of panic about copycats, which isn't surprising because trying to track down the shooter based on insurance records had a staggering amount of people who would have a good reason to do the same.
Honestly, a year ago I would've been in the same boat after my mom's passing. And there are a LOT more people with nothing left to lose out there.
I don't think this is over until the change becomes more permanent. not by a long shot.
