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Stop Glorifying Violence in America
Why Hollywood must draw a line between commerce and exploitation.
Dead Reckoning
Jeffery Epstein is the reason *I* had to give up the true crime genre, completely and forever, several years ago.
That excellent decision led me to eventually eschew any movies or television that explicitly glorifies violence against women, and any entertainment my grandmother might call “upsetting programs”.
But Jeffery Epstein was the first domino in that grotesque lineup to fall.
Mystery stories and genteel who-done-its like the Hardy Boys and Murder She Wrote were one thing; the level of gratuitous media violence in 2019 is something else entirely. You know it's true.
True crime, real-life mysteries unraveling like fiction, has undergone a similar transformation from the low-fi days of Unsolved Mysteries. Today, true crime is everywhere; books, television, movies, podcasts, audiobooks. Amateur gumshoes can play detective as never before, prowling chat rooms with a sheriff’s posse of like-minds, examining cold cases and famous unsolved murders in painful detail.
And boy are there ever details.
Details as never before. Details on details. Decades of interviews with captured serial killers; video footage, audio…