If someone were to go to a search engine on the web and type the phrase “crime in the news,” they will not be finding many reports criticizing the abundance of crime in the news, but instead the top most searched sites that

appear at the heading of the search include titles like “Crime News 2000, ‘true crime and criminal justice stories.’” and “Crime and Police News.” Search engines list their findings based on the most popularly visited sites thus, the American public are the ones questing after the bloody news that fills the news each night. At the same time though, one of the more popular complaints about the news media is in response to the reports of violence. And while we continue to complain about the crime, we also keep buying our youth video games like Grand Theft Auto which endorse violence to the utmost extent. So the networks, despite what the people claim, headline their nightly broadcasts with crime because people watch it.

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