Well, this turned out to be not-news apparently... so what's the precedence for this?
In May of 2019 the Jeremy Kyle Show got cancelled because a guest later went on to kill themselves. This was a huge news story that still carries a huge media following and is currently even being debated by MPs to discover the extent of the problems this show caused:
Jeremy Kyle guests treated worse than criminal suspects in police custody, claims MP
Links: take your pick of literally hundreds.
And what does the Jeremy Kyle show do? It's sort of like the Jerry Springer show of old, except it adds many doses of extreme moralising on top of the sickening spectacle. It's primary focus is exposing people who are assholes, dicks and hoes, etc etc etc. The kind of stuff that gets aired and shouted about outside any UK public house in areas of lower quality neighbourhoods during extremely drunken weekend nights. You know, "is it my baby" and "you cheated on me for the last time" and "why my dad can't accept I'm a transvestite" type screaming matches, full of audience groans, laughs and judgemental holier than thou looks down upturned noses.
So... a bit like what the #metoo movement does really.
Likewise, another recent suicide case involved someone who 'the public' have been chasing for a few years now, a certain Jeffery Epstein, who's claim to infame was that he allegedly asked 'underage' girls if they wanted to come to a party, at which point they were allegedly 'hired' to perform sexual acts, and then later allegedly 'forced' to continue the practice. Epstein allegedly committed suicide in his jail cell mere hours after being arrested.
Again, the news surrounding his suicide is continuous and unending. There are literally thousands of articles on the topic since his death on 10th August 2019.
Likewise, whenever a shooter commits suicide after hosing down their allotted pack of unsuspecting innocents, the first job of the wider media is to fully investigate that person's history. Again, you cannot move for people being made aware of the entire life of these cases of suicides.
Now...
However...
When #metoo finds itself with a casualty, the suicidal death of a computer game developer, Alec Holowka, there appears to have been a near complete media blackout. Even those publications that did bother to tell anyone this news did not even bother either mentioning suicide in their title nor allow for any editorial content in the following article:
Night in the Woods' Alec Holowka has passed away
And since that time not a sausage of reporting has taken place. Apparently, the expressed reason for this happening is:
1) The sister of the deceased has claimed that the deceased did not want people to examine his accuser and she also asked for 'respect' for the dead.
Which is very unusual for media outlets. As you can see from the above historical precedent, the media really doesn't give two shits about respect for the dead, particularly when there's a good news story and many a controversial click to be earned. So why this case?
2) Because apparently whenever a suicide is reported in the headlines, apparently the suicide rate increases, so 'the press' is deliberately avoiding the topic to 'save lives'.
Even though, again, they have never historically taken this stance as a matter of principle. In effect, this 'principle' appears to be one that only matters when the 'story' is one they do not wish to discuss, for whatever reason.
There has not been one single article from anywhere in the world that has drawn parallel between the Jeremy Kyle situation and the #metoo situation here. Since my initial report of the breaking news, the news has decided upon itself that there is 'no news' here.
So even after a full mid-week of daily news across hundreds of news 'outlets' there still appears to be zero reputable links to provide on this matter.
The only people 'talking' about it in any depth are various YouTube commentators. However, most of those are being accused of being 'Gamergaters' and 'right-wing ambulance chasers', for merely taking an interest. Which is interesting, because I wouldn't normally watch a lot of these people, but the media blackout has... kinda forced me into their viewership...? So... am I a bad person for even thinking this is a very important story?
Those that are vlogging about the topic from a position of 'Zoe Quinn did nothing wrong' are mostly just objecting to the fact that people are caring about the story and that they 'believe' Zoe's allegations about Holowka, which is irrelevant, the story isn't about that any more. If the story is only about whether Quinn was telling the truth then that suggests that these people don't even care that someone died as a result of the allegations, they are agreeing, by omission of statement, that, well, anyone accused by the #metoo movement is perfectly deserving of the death penalty and that the death of victims of these on-line Jeremy Kyle-like public outrages should not be mourned even if they die. None of them have any sense of self-reflection about the methods and aims of the #metoo movement but instead carry on 'business as usual', demonising anyone who talks about the topic and simply reaffirming that the victim was 'a bad man m'kay'.
I've always been sceptical of the notion of there being some great conspiracy of media. There are some news outlets that are like chalk and cheese. So when there's a total unanimous solidarity among mortal enemies it is usually because there is a greater threat, either a war or a national disaster or what have you, but even here you can normally find some editorials or investigative pieces that are not hivemind sanctioned. This #metoo thing though... this story has really lit a beacon upon the sheer terror that #metoo wields in the upper echelons of power. Not even one single opinion piece or editorial... anywhere. Wow.
And if it's not terror induced... then... what exactly is it?
Just wow.