As an admitted obsessive viewer of Law & Order, there's no way I would have accepted that someone other than a jealous lover or a money-hungry family member murdered Sarah Walker until it was proven otherwise.
This just proves the cultivation theory. Media infiltrates us and in order to avoid making assumptions, I think we have to make a conscious effort. I know I have been trying to be aware of media messages ever since class started.
Floyd is correct in her explanation that we are drawn in to crimes involving interesting people as victims. But the act of doing this and becoming obsessive because we want the story to be fascinating seems animal-like, like we're all a part of a morbid circus. And seems even more so when her story is cast aside because her murderer wasn't who we expected.
I think highly of Floyd for admiting error and bringing to light an issue we all don't realize we have.
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