As an editor responsible for certain specialty pages in this newspaper, I constantly receive story pitches. Some are truly valuable local content, while others are simply absurd. It bothers me greatly that a significant number of these pitches arrive via emails sent to numerous editors like me, having no relevance whatsoever to our readership or the world at large. Take, for instance, the one I received just last week.

Carole Liberman's Unfounded Claims

A fancy Hollywood figure believed that I should allow her to tell me all about Luigi Mangione based on a notebook found by the police during his arrest in connection with the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. It is astonishing that Carole Liberman, with a plethora of credentials, thinks that as a board-certified Beverly Hills psychiatrist, she "can answer any of my questions about Luigi Mangione." Firstly, I have no questions. Secondly, how on earth could she claim such a thing? Was he her client? Clearly not. Her suppositions are not facts, and her interpretations are irrelevant. She is just another person trying to gain some fame from this tragic event.Mangione is alleged to be a criminal and should be regarded as such. He is no heroic figure standing up for the public good. I couldn't care less about the notebook he had the nerve to carry or his so-called manifesto and his ruminations about the system's evils. Moreover, he is not imparting any new insights to thinking individuals.Healthcare in this country is overly complex, cumbersome, and difficult for even the most educated person to navigate. It will not change because of what he did, wrote, or deemed enlightening. You don't fix a problem by assassinating a CEO. You don't fix it by making yourself a prominent figure and suddenly becoming known to everyone. Look at me! Look at what I did! It's extremely vain.Again, this will change nothing and has already cost a tremendous amount in terms of time and money, with more to come. As the media, we will keep writing story after story about him, the gun, his privileged upbringing, and so on. Even this column is centered around him.I don't know how we can fix the healthcare system, its costs, availability, and insurance issues. But I do know how not to do it, and I don't need some fancy LA commentator's so-called insights on this self-centered, not selfless, man.