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Can you really blame Lou?

posted 8 years ago by bubblenator
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If we didn't see him kill the security guard at the start for his watch then all he was doing is petty theft (scrap metal, bike) we wouldn't see him as a sociopath. Although he found his niche in filming human carnage all he was doing was feeding a market that is wanting to see THAT type of footage.

So do we as consumers and TV viewers take ANY responsibility in wanting to see shooting aftermaths, car accidents, house murder crime scenes and armed robberies with victims?

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[–] KingCobra686 8 years ago

I blame the TV stations mostly. Just look at the articles that the tv station was running in the movie. They were specifically tailoring events into articles about crime creeping into white suburbia to purposely freak out segments of their target audience. I blame the tv station for warping the news to make it dramatic, not the audience that is responding to dramatic news like any normal person would.

People arent as bloodthirsty as the news makes us out to be. I guarantee there are way more people googling cat videos on the internet than people googling snuff videos.

[–] bubblenator 8 years ago

People arent as bloodthirsty as the news makes us out to be. I guarantee there are way more people googling cat videos on the internet than people googling snuff videos.

No way you give humans to much credit! It's trivial in that we (the TV news audience) would rather see a high speed police car chase rather than two Arab politicians sign some kinda Middle East peace treaty. Look at how many people dropped what they were doing and were glued to any TV they could find at the OJ Simpson car chase and arrest or the TV camera mounted on the nose cones of GBU Smart Bombs on its flight before impact to start the 1991 Gulf War made famous by CNN.

What people want to see on the TV News is not the same as what they want to watch on YouTube.

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