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 put 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, or break them, or find loopholes to work around them.
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 next ticket to the carnival. But as Mark Fuhrman relates in The Murder Business, a heinous crime can produce many victims, and high-profile murders can hurt innocent people who get burned by the spotlight, whether or not they sought it out themselves. This searing indictment of the media shows how the criminal justice system can be manipulated by money, power, politics, fame—and all too often, ratings.
©2009 Mark Fuhrman (P)2009 Phoenix Books, Inc.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 eardrumsWhat didn’t you like about Kirby Heyborne’s performance?
He was reading this bookIf 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 introAny 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.So biased it is breathtaking
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