The Internet Does Its Thing with Luigi Mangione
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.2 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson captured the internet's attention last week. Then, a suspect, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, was arrested, and social media really went wild. Why, in a week of historic headlines from around the world, did this story captivate so many, so thoroughly?
Show notes:
Suspect in CEO’s Killing Had Discussed His Health Struggles on Reddit (The New York Times)
r/GetNoted (Reddit)
What Can We Learn From the C.E.O. Shooting Suspect’s Goodreads History? (The New York Times)
Credits: This episode was produced by Grace Tatter. Sivertson. Mix and sound design by Paul Vaitkus. It was hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson.
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| 0:59.0 | How are you doing? How are you feeling about the world, the state of our country and the world? |
| 1:05.6 | You know, the news this week has been super rough. WBUR is in its fundraiser right now. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.2 | And we've had a genuinely really hard time. I mean, it's easy to talk about the importance |
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| 1:21.6 | But we're having a really hard time doing the whole life. And we also bring you joy. And so I'd like to think that |
| 1:29.5 | endless thread helps with some of that, even though when there is news like there is right now, |
| 1:36.0 | we can also help kind of explain it in our own way and be familiar voices helping wade through |
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