The Media & Crime in America

It it bleeds, it leads.  Well, that's how the media's idiom goes.  The media and crime go hand-in-hand in America. The media has a vested interest in maintaining the tough-on-crime cycle of windfall profits.  Unfortunately, the media in America — especially cable news — is entirely ungoverned, and is protected through libel insurance.

https://nationalcdp.org/media-and-crime/

The media covering crime in America has no governing set of ethos; the lowest common denominator is the Society for Professional Journalists, and even their recommendations are largely ignored.