The Murder Business
How the Media Turns Crime into Entertainment and Subverts Justice
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The Murder Business
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Narrated by:
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Kirby Heyborne
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By:
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Mark Fuhrman
About this listen
Media and law enforcement work at cross-purposes. Law enforcement wants to solve a case as fast as possible and puts the guilty behind bars. The media wants a case to drag on as long as humanly possible and do all they can to extricate every last bit of drama, drop by bloody drop, in order to hold the attention of the millions of viewers who have gotten hooked.
Law enforcement must abide by rules. The media make their own rules, and even then break them or find ways to work loopholes into them. All that matters is ratings.
If people knew how it's done - how the media seduce, buy, bribe and corrupt, like an inevitable, malignant cancer on a murder investigation - they might be too sickened to buy the nexy ticket to the carnival. The unfortunate truth is that today, each murder has many victims, and high-profile murders can hurt innocent people who get burned by the spotlight, whether or not they sought it out themselves.
Fuhrman learned that firsthand as a police witness in the O. J. Simpson trial, a wrenching experience that showed how the criminal justice system can be manipulated by money, power, politics and fame.
©2009 Mark Fuhrman (P)2009 PhoenixWhat listeners say about The Murder Business
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- fiona
- 02-02-2014
So biased it is breathtaking
What disappointed you about The Murder Business?
The guy who wrote it works fir FOX NEWS, so spends most of the book accusing other networks of manipulation, one-sided reporting and political bias. Meanwhile, he can't rave enough about how fair Fox (yep; FOX) is, and how they have so much more integrity and respect for victims of crime.
Would you ever listen to anything by Mark Fuhrman again?
Not by choice. In fact, I'd rather pierce my eardrums
What didn’t you like about Kirby Heyborne’s performance?
He was reading this book
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Murder Business?
Well, it would end up being about 30 seconds long. Maybe I'd leave the intro
Any additional comments?
It's horrendous, and if it wasn't talking about people who have had terrible, terrible things happen to them, it would be funny. However, it is about people who've suffered things we couldn't imagine, so it's not funny, it's opportunistic and offensive.
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