Tuesday, November 26, 2013


I am a great fan of the ID (Investigation Discovery) channel. I always liked true crime as opposed to  fictionalized hour-long dramas. What real people do is so much more interesting than what scriptwriters can invent. But one thing this channel (ID) does that I find very offensive is that whenever they promote a show about female killers they always add a tone of amusement and sexuality. It's as if they think that women murdering men is almost justified, that all such murders are sexual in nature, and all murderesses are hot babes.True, lurid promotions probably help to get more viewers, but I think it's immoral to suggest that murder, any murder, is somehow lighthearted fun. In the promotion above the couple are rich and attractive, not always the case, the persons in their circle also attractive, not always the case, and the tone of the promotion suggests to me that having been jealous of this perfect couple, the neighbors were rather pleased when she murdered her husband with the oh-so-comical knife. I remind ID that these shows are about real killers, real murders, real people and to trivialize such horrible events is real tasteless. Unless you think it's hilarious that someone who was loved is dead, and the person who killed them is spending a lifetime in prison.

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