The Struggle to Report on Violence Well

Or, What we learned from a gamified hunt for a CEO-killer

Screencap from a Fox News report following NYPD on a performative search of Central Park. You can watch a segment here, care of Substack’s J.P. Hill on Bluesky, if you don’t want to give Fox the click-through to its YouTube broadcast here.

Last week, I made the mistake of thinking I could write about All The Things. Granted, when I first started drafting…