Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.
One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.
There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.
I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.