Crime Profits
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The universal rule of business is
that profit must be made for a company to continue to exist. The product
provided to the world must be in such high demand that the recipient of such a
product must be willing to purchase such an item for more than the cost of
production. Why the media should be looked at any differently. The business of
the news room and, without much of a stretch, Hollywood, is exactly the same as
any other business- whether it be plastics, pharmaceuticals or the
black-market.
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This
notion of creating a product from humanity and what is deemed as unlawful
behaviours is indeed a booming business too. With Hollywood producing
blockbusters weekly focussing on “bad cop” or serial killers the market is
saturated with fictitious replications of legal violations. To follow this
international line up is our local news at 6 and the daily telegraph.
Mechanisms for the people to inform them of the activities fellow members of
their community have been indulging in. Activities the majority of citizens
would be ignorant of if not exposed.
The travesties occurring within
our society are the highlight of the business calendar. They are the event of
which we as a society are interested and intrigued and the events which sell
newspapers. The more heinous the crime, the more intrigue from the surrounding
society. But what if there was no stories for the day? What if there was no
demand for the paper that day. A day of no murders or stabbings, a day without
a looming financial crisis and the politicians getting their jobs wrong. What
if there was the perfectly boring day? To most people their day is the
perfectly boring day with their relatively menial, yet personally exiting, news
broadcast on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, to a select
number of people who may actually care. The actives are related to holidaying,
food consumed, relationships and other topics of such societal relevance.
It could be argued then that this
day has come, many a time, and the news companies don’t seem to notice. Or
maybe they do, but their employees sure haven’t noticed. It costs money to
print papers and to read news, even on the slow days.
Enter crime-for-cash. It’s now an
artist’s job to paint society as the broken and dangerous. One does not report
the news. They paint a picture, allude to circumstances and potential. News
doesn’t tell a story and inform, it now presents a lifestyle and is a manual
for surviving such an area. It is not up to those who are locals to judge their
community, because it has been exploited by 60 minutes. The legal system does
not need consulting or referencing when active journalism can fill in all the
holes with a sound effect and re-enactment of the potential situation.
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