An audience member’s fascination with crime once again relates back to the list of how audiences use the media by Blumler & Katz (Pope). The fourth theory of media being used for surveillance allows the audience member to stay abreast of newsworthy events going on locally, nationally and internationally, through television, radio, and several other forms of mediated news reporting.
However, what many audiences of crime media may often fail to realize is that continuing to watch television prgrams that deal with criminal behaviour and justice is that it has the power to not only to reinforce but to distort perceptions of crime in real life.
Canada Safety Board Case Study
Representation of Crime on Fictional Television
