Serial Killers as Heroes in Popular Culture

When asked to honestify the extremely sadistic spirit of his murders, Doe replies If you want to people to pay attention, Detective, you cant just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You turn over to hit them with a sledgehammer. past youll find you have their strict attention. This is a prime example as to why the media can get, and keep the attention of their audience when it comes to being a serial killer. The media feels that the more people see of a particular crime, the little they are inclined to go out and commit heinous crimes.On the other hand, it could be that they just need the ratings to keep their show pass and they re ally do non care what their audience is looking at or how it makes them feel. The media in my opinion only care around their ratings and how some(prenominal) viewers they have. The media should focus more of the energy on the victims and what was taken, rather than cerebrate on the killer or killers. During this week we watch Natural born(p) Kil lers, and I thought that this movie showed every aspect as to why the focus should not be on the killers.Who in their right capitulum would decide to do a live taping of an interview with a serial killer, and then decide to let the prisoners view the taping. This shows that the producers only cared about the ratings. They did not have to agree with the request, but they did not want to ache their number 1 reporter either. They put their ratings and sponsors above their audience and a lot of people lost their lives, all because someone higher up thought it was ok to do a live show with a serial killer.In my mind I am remembering, this man is not the president or anything so why should he get all the attention. Why someone of this nature should even be allowed to see the lightness of day. Why, because we as society crave that energy that is sent from the screen to our victuals rooms. We want to feel sorry for the killers because its in our nature to think that maybe this person c ould have been saved, or that they were truly wronged somewhere in their life.I truly do think that the prisoners viewing the show as it aired played a big part in the major riot that occurred. I am not saying that it could not have happened at any other time, but in this case with everything that was handout on, this was the wrong time to allow prisoners access to this particular show. The media puts too a great deal information out there for anybody to see, and society is the one who ends up distraint the consequences.