Is the Media Stirring Up Income and Ratings?
Media sensationalism has hit an all time low. I don't understand how they choose to expose one thing and not another. For instance, take a 79 year old woman walking inside her Brooklyn apartment and getting raped by someone who is old enough to be her grandson. It's just incomprehensible to think a young man would want to hurt someone who is almost 80 years old. That never gets put on trial. They just book him, fling him in jail and that's that. There are so many unheard horror stories that are happening right at this very minute that never get the exposure that they need should get. What about Jodi Arias? She shot her boyfriend in the head and then slit his throat from ear-to-ear and continued stabbing him in the back 29 times. That gets the media's attention. Casey Anthony was another one who caught the media's heart. They were all over it like flies on shit. The sad thing is, these types of cases that promote so much attention and media are the ones that ar...