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TV's Morbidity Morass |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: Rita Colorito |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2001 |
| Size: 2,136 Words, 13,064 Characters |
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Since the early 1990s, though, television news has expanded its fascination with the lurid and the lascivious to include the morbid and mutilated.
Although the evening news has always reported on stories of death by crime, war, and natural disaster, television newsmagazines have taken reporting on murder to a new level. Some nights you can't turn on one of these programs without hearing and watching a blow-by-blow description, literally, of how someone was murdered by a serial killer, an abusive husband, or armed high school students. Scenes of the crime "Justice for Sheila," on CBS's 48 Hours, walked viewers through the murder scene through the words of Sheila's daughter, Stevie, who found her dead mother. As Stevie recalled rushing home to tell her mom good news, we see happy ima...
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...ren killing people? We have boring leaders. Children, in extremity, are not boring. As long as television is for making money, we will be given this sort of failed vision of reality."
"It's a chicken-versus-egg phenomenon," argues Grana. "We are interested, but part of our interest comes from the media giving it to us." So as long as death sells, we can expect to see more of the same.
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