Is Luigi Mangione Too Hot for the New York Times?

Supposedly the New York Times has found a solution to control the on-going popularity of Luigi Mangione: don't show his face.

"Yesterday the New York Times instructed staff to avoid publishing photos of Luigi Mangione's face, internal company messages leaked to me reveal," independent journalist Ken Klippenstein tweeted.

He elaborated on his blog: "Internal New York Times messages about its coverage of alleged gunman Luigi Mangione have been leaked to me and the contents are revealing. On Tuesday, management said 'the news value and public service of showing his face is diminishing,' instructing staff to 'dial back' its use of such photos. It also directed that Luigi's 'manifesto' not be published in the paper,"

"The directive was heeded," he continued. "If you visit Times' front-page story today on the shooter, it features Mangione's back as he was being marched to his arraignment in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Another Times story today on Mangione's notebook features a photo of a generic police-tape barricade."

Klippenstein believes that "the New York Times is putting its own thumb on the information scale, having appointed itself an enforcer of public safety,' And to make his point he quotes from the leaked memo in which the newspaper's photo editor Clinton Cargill writes: "The news value and public service of showing his face is declining," As fpr the 'manifesto, editor Andrea Kannapell writes: "I think we will still not pub the whole thing so as not to provide bullhorn."