{"id":73985,"date":"2026-05-25T07:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/luigi-mangione-superfans-press-passes-raise-issue-of-who-is-really-a-journalist\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:56:32","slug":"luigi-mangione-superfans-press-passes-raise-issue-of-who-is-really-a-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/luigi-mangione-superfans-press-passes-raise-issue-of-who-is-really-a-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione superfans\u2019 press passes raise issue of who is really a journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media credentials for the accused gunman\u2019s New York trial acquired by his supporters have provoked sharp reactions<\/p>\n<p>On what felt like an early New York City summer day, a gaggle of women in the bloom of youth gathered outside Manhattan\u2019s criminal courthouse last week, waxing philosophical about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/09\/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-suspect-arrested\">Luigi Mangione<\/a> and the man he is accused of murdering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/brian-thompson-shooting\">Brian Thompson<\/a>, that\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say,\u201d one of the three women, who sported a button adorned with Mangione\u2019s face, said of the late UnitedHealthcare executive. After directing the same invective towards Thompson\u2019s mother, the woman continued: \u201cI said what I said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/25\/luigi-mangione-fans-press-passes-new-york-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media credentials for the accused gunman\u2019s New York trial acquired by his supporters have provoked sharp reactions On what felt like an early New York City summer day, a gaggle of women in the bloom of youth gathered outside Manhattan\u2019s criminal courthouse last week, waxing philosophical about Luigi Mangione and the man he is accused &#8230; <a title=\"Luigi Mangione superfans\u2019 press passes raise issue of who is really a journalist\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/luigi-mangione-superfans-press-passes-raise-issue-of-who-is-really-a-journalist\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Luigi Mangione superfans\u2019 press passes raise issue of who is really a journalist\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}