Since writing yesterday's piece on the capital punishment debate, another element of the problem has occurred to me. It strikes me that the popular media, of necessity, must be biased in favour of killers - or, more specifically, against the victims.
This is because that the details of most killings - the enormities committed on the bodies of the victims, the agonies of the victim's loved ones - are simply too horrible to be reported in detail, while details of the personality and background of the killer are protected by law.
Thus, it is easier for the uninvolved to sympathise with the malefactor, whose predicament - as he awaits judgement, they can understand (or delude themselves that they can understand).
I can see no way of avoiding this in a decent society - but I do feel we should bear it in mind.
Britaine
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