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How many major news outlets are covering the latest scandal involving Neil Gaiman? Somebody's still managing perception. The question is: who? And why?

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https://www.avclub.com/neil-gaiman-accused-of-sexual-assault...

The allegations were that he sometimes had rough sex during consensual relationships. That’s hardly front-page material.

It's much more than that, which you wouldn't know, because nobody's covering it. Which is my point. In a time when the major news outlets love to publish anything even hinting at salacious, this one gets a pass. Why?

more info here: https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/07/03/exclusive-neil-gaim...

False dissent and manipulating and taking control of dissent is the goal not covering up scandals.

Spook intervention in social mind space is strategic not tactical in nature. The goal is the ability to control and steer collective conversation. To take control of dissent, place its leaders, and pen its 'thoughts'.

This self-contradicts.

Covering up a scandal could well be strategic, and serve to control and steer collective conversation.

They probably don't see money in it as most people don't know who he is.

The headline literally says two accusations of NON CONSENSUAL acts.

As someone who personally despises Gaiman's works and personal politics: the allegations are extremely weak, and severely undermined by the alleged victims' text messages to him the morning after alleged assaults.

The veracity of the allegations are immaterial to the conversation. Allegations have been made by two women. The press love this stuff. But nobody's covering it. Why?

I see tons or articles with low effort search.

Anyway, allegations like these as extremly common if there is any party with a lot of money. Let’s wait the actual juridical process if that happens.

Yeah? Care to provide some links? Keep in mind we're talking about the mainstream media, not blogs.

First couple links from top news site in UK

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/neil-gaiman-a...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/03/neil-gaiman-deni...

That's one. Any others? You said "tons."

Go back to the #metoo coverage from 2018. How many mainstream media outlets covered those accusations?

There are tons. These are just examples. Isn’t your search engine functional?

Then name some. I only see blogs and the one mainstream publication you mentioned.

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