Monday, October 28, 2002

Why isn't murder as exciting as it used to be?

(Thanks to Susan Howell for the tip.)
"Murder is so routine, including the killing of children, it doesn't even warrant serious news coverage in most cases....We don't know what to do about all this violence. We don't know how to process it. We don't even know how to cover it. We sensationalize it, glamorize it, eroticize it." Read full article from nytimes.com

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