Crime Writing as a Mode of Experience Reality is not objective, it is subjective to the person perceiving it. The Media mediates a message. News presents itself as unmediated. Knowledge and power are inter-dependent. Public policy is informed by the media, particularly where two or three sensationalised cases are represented as a trend.
Criminology needs to have a wider, educational role.
The relationship between media representations and perceptions is not linear. The murder of Leigh Leigh and its ficitionalisation as Black Rock KQED v Vasquez - televised execution challenge. Media representatives are allowed at executions as a form of state accountability. The court rejected the argument more in the interests of good taste than any other. The Usual Suspects Deals with conventional narrative and truth Unlike Blood Simple the different perspectives on truth are deliberately created.