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Originally Posted by vinceprince
So they don't bother with all the shootings then?  |
That's the "brown people doing mayhem" part of the program . . . occasionally for variety they'll offer up some meth'd out white guys doing mayhem just to prove that they're not pandering exclusively to racism . . . which is true, they pander to every unworthy sentiment.
I live in a part of the country that's very white, so we have a shortage of swarthy crims, our local news tends more to pale scabby guys with neck tattoos, but yeah, here in the land of the abundantly armed local news can usually find some citizen who got in the way of some high speed lead. We also have a local cottage industry in serial killers: the Green River Killer and the most celebrated of them all Ted Bundy. So we do OK in the skells department.
If not, there's always the standby "the tragedy of teen prostitution" . . . though that's a little less flagrant than it was in years gone by.
There was a thing called "sweeps week", when the ratings agencies would audit local stations' viewership -- hard and expensive to do in the pre-internet television era. During this week, local news would reliably run their most lurid stories.