Journalistic skepticism isn't magically exempt when someone dies

Within hours of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death by a gunman in Midtown Manhattan, the major media went full North Korea, lavishing praise on the sainted business leader. The Washington Post reported that the “smart and affable” Thompson had a “focus on keeping premiums low,” citing an unnamed company staffer who we’re to believe “spoke on condition of anonymity to protect their job.”

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    5 days ago

    Thompson had a “focus on keeping premiums low,”

    Lol premiums are literally their entire source of revenue. The CEO of an enormous publicly-traded company had a focus on keeping revenue as low as possible? If this were actually true, the people most likely to have killed him would be everybody on the board and everybody else in the c-suite.

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      That’s not true. They gain revenue by fucking over many parties in many ways beyond just premiums

      • ssladam@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        Exactly. The more claims you can deny the lower you can make premiums appear because you’re not actually paying out.