Maggie Barde | Opinion Piece
The productions of true crime are bittersweet. The audience gets the morbid and completely disgusting story that they have been waiting for. They even pay to hear the story sometimes. However, this gives an “up and coming” criminal leverage to have a platform. The criminal knows that they will be the new face of every social media surface for at least a month once they commit their crime.
However, it is not the media that is at fault. The human mind has been conditioned to search for answers. Puzzles since we were little kids have trained us to ask the simple question, why? So let me ask you this. Why is the media at fault for fulfilling our morbid curiosity? They give us the productions and publications that we ask for. If anyone is to be questioned, it is the viewer. The audience is the funding for the continuation of true crime productions.
The funny thing is that even with the knowledge that the audience is romanticizing these true crime productions, we will continue to watch. A tragic story of murder will forever be the “next big hit”.
Maggie Barde is currently a sophomore at TCC. She plans to transfer to Florida State University and major in Communications with specialty in marketing.
