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* This trope wound up destroying the career of [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent film]] star Creator/FattyArbuckle. When a woman died at a party he was holding, the media jumped onto exaggerated reports that he had raped and killed her (some went so far to say that she had been crushed to death while having sex with him; his nickname "Fatty" was not accidental). Even after he was declared innocent (the jury even apologized for his name being dragged through the mud), he found himself blacklisted from working in Hollywood. He appeared in only one film after the trial and ended up working behind the scenes under a pseudonym.

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* This trope wound up destroying the career of [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood [[MediaNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent film]] film era]] star Creator/FattyArbuckle. When a woman died at a party he was holding, the media jumped onto exaggerated reports that he had raped and killed her (some went so far to say that she had been crushed to death while having sex with him; his nickname "Fatty" was not accidental). Even after he was declared innocent (the jury even apologized for his name being dragged through the mud), he found himself blacklisted from working in Hollywood. He appeared in only one film after the trial and ended up working behind the scenes under a pseudonym.
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* Subverted in ''Film/KickAss''. A news network broadcasts what they believe will be a livestream of the titular hero announcing his identity and retirement, only for it to instead be his and Big Daddy's TelevisedTorture and (planned) PublicExecution at the hands of Chris D'Amico's goons. Just as the goons [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown get properly stuck in]], the feed cuts out, with the justification that what's happening is too graphic for the network to show. Notably, one group of viewers is then shown frantically opening a laptop so they can view the livestream at its source.
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" [[AvertedTrope Viciously averted]] in ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'' in Chapter 26. When an overeager reporter barges into Izuku's room and shoves a microphone into his face to demand answers about I-Island... after the [[VideoGame/Doom2016 Doom Slayer]] slaughtered the entire Steel Sabers organization, was forced to walk through a lake of blood to get to an airport, saw the Slayer successfully best All Might in combat after pulverizing 48 heroes into unconsciousness and is genuinely wishing for this to be put behind him instead of brought up. Aizawa had to use his capture scarf and with hospital security, throw the reporter and his cameraman out of the hospital.

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" * [[AvertedTrope Viciously averted]] in ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'' in Chapter 26. When an overeager reporter barges into Izuku's room and shoves a microphone into his face to demand answers about I-Island... after the [[VideoGame/Doom2016 Doom Slayer]] slaughtered the entire Steel Sabers organization, was forced to walk through a lake of blood to get to an airport, saw the Slayer successfully best All Might in combat after pulverizing 48 heroes into unconsciousness and is genuinely wishing for this to be put behind him instead of brought up. Aizawa had to use his capture scarf and with hospital security, throw the reporter and his cameraman out of the hospital.
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" [[AvertedTrope Viciously averted]] in ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'' in Chapter 26. When an overeager reporter barges into Izuku's room and shoves a microphone into his face to demand answers about I-Island... after the [[VideoGame/Doom2016 Doom Slayer]] slaughtered the entire Steel Sabers organization, was forced to walk through a lake of blood to get to an airport, saw the Slayer successfully best All Might in combat after pulverizing 48 heroes into unconsciousness and is genuinely wishing for this to be put behind him instead of brought up. Aizawa had to use his capture scarf and with hospital security, throw the reporter and his cameraman out of the hospital.
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** A similar phenomenon happened the next year, when it seemed as though literally every week, a child was abducted. While that year did include some notorious incidents--the kidnapping of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Elizabeth_Smart Elizabeth Smart]], and of [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/story%3fid=125882&page=1 Jacqueline Marris and Tamara Brooks]], etc.--as stated above, statistically speaking, the rate of child abductions was no greater that year than in years prior.
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** Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet?

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-->''We got the bubble-headed bleach blonde''\\
''Who comes on at five''\\
''She can tell you 'bout the plane crash''\\
''With a gleam in her eye''\\
'''''It's interesting when people die'''''\\
''Give us dirty laundry''
** Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet?yet? Get the widow on the set, we need dirty laundry!
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* ''[[https://youtu.be/A281Do6HqZo Channel 5: The Musical]]'' aka "Channel 5 News" by comedian Creator/BoBurnham satirizes the media's focus on entertainment over news.

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* ''[[https://youtu.be/A281Do6HqZo ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtwDmuSQRHk Channel 5: The Musical]]'' aka "Channel 5 News" by comedian Creator/BoBurnham satirizes the media's focus on entertainment over news.
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* {{Invoked|Trope}} by name by Creator/KelseyGrammer's character in ''Film/FifteenMinutes''.

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* %%* {{Invoked|Trope}} by name by Creator/KelseyGrammer's character in ''Film/FifteenMinutes''.
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Another, even darker effect of the news media's obsession with violence — and the one that is often emphasized in fiction — is the kind of message it sends out to impressionable viewers. By glorifying the actions of violent criminals, the media tell viewers, "Hey, if you go out and fire a machine gun into a crowd of little children, you too can make the national news!" Critics of this type of reporting often point out that it's [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] for the news media to accuse violent movies, music, and [[UltraSuperDeathGorefestChainsawer3000 video games]] of [[MurderSimulators making people violent]] when they're indulging in far more grisly and true-to-life stuff every night at 11 — stuff that is being plastered over countless TV screens, implicitly [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing turning the perpetrators into celebrities]]. Additionally, it provides terrorists and other assorted nutjobs a very convenient stage from which to spread fear and their political agendas by way of violence.

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Another, even darker effect of the news media's obsession with violence — and the one that is often emphasized in fiction — is the kind of message it sends out to impressionable viewers. By glorifying the actions of violent criminals, the media tell viewers, "Hey, if you go out and fire a machine gun into a crowd of little children, you too can make the national news!" Critics of this type of reporting often point out that it's [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] for the news media to accuse violent movies, music, and [[UltraSuperDeathGorefestChainsawer3000 video games]] of [[MurderSimulators making people violent]] when they're indulging in far more grisly and true-to-life stuff every night at 11 — stuff that is being plastered over countless TV screens, implicitly [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing turning the perpetrators into celebrities]]. Additionally, it provides terrorists and other assorted nutjobs a very convenient stage from which to [[FameThroughInfamy burn their name into the history books]] and/or spread fear and their political agendas by way of violence.
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* When the space shuttle ''Challenger'' exploded in January, 1986, regional and national news outlets rushed to get personnel there (if they didn't already have some; except for schoolteacher Christa [=McAuliffe=] being the first non-astronaut in space, shuttle launches were beginning to lose their noteworthy nature). Atlanta newspaper ''The Journal-Constitution'' dispatched humorist Lewis Grizzard to oversee their reporters (despite being a humor writer, Grizzard had previously been a successful editor for nearly a decade and had the skills to coordinate such an effort, while allowing the paper's actual editors to remain in Atlanta). In one of his books, he wrote of his disgust upon overhearing an unknown reporter and his photographer.
-->'''Grizzard:''' I never learned what paper these men were from, but I'll never forget what they said as we filed off the plane. "What do you want me to shoot?", asked the photographer. "Just find the nearest grieving widow." was the answer.
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* This occurs quite a bit in Brazil. There are at least three SeparateButIdentical news programs on different stations exclusively about crimes/murders/road-accidents, competing for the same time slot at lunchtime.

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* This occurs quite a bit in Brazil. There are at least three SeparateButIdentical news programs on different stations exclusively about crimes/murders/road-accidents, competing for the same time slot at lunchtime. They are commonly called "Pinga-Sangue" (lit: "Blood-drippers").
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* Similarly this trope was also cited during Logan Paul's 2018 "Suicide Forest" controversy where he posted footage of him finding a suicide victim hanging from a tree in the Aokigahara.

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* Similarly this trope was also cited during Logan Paul's Creator/LoganPaul's 2018 "Suicide Forest" controversy where he posted footage of him finding a suicide victim hanging from a tree in the Aokigahara.
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** Also in ''Scream 4'', we have the publicist version in Rebecca. When the killings get going, she's ecstatic as they will drive up the sales of Sidney's book. Sidney, traumatized by constantly being targeted by psychotic killers ''and'' trying to help her younger cousin whose friend was just killed, is not amused.

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** Also in ''Scream 4'', we have the publicist version in Rebecca. When the killings get going, she's ecstatic as they will drive up the sales of Sidney's book. Sidney, traumatized by constantly being targeted by psychotic killers ''and'' trying to help her younger cousin whose friend was just killed, is not amused. amused, and fires her on the spot when she tries to convince her to exploit her past trauma in order to make more money.
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