True Crime 5. If It Bleeds, It Leads

Spectacle: An Unscripted History of Reality TV by Sony Music

Jul 21, 202238:23Society & Culture

When you turn on the nightly news, what usually leads? Often… It’s violence. A shooting. A 5-car pileup. The portrait of a missing girl. Sometimes it’s not even local. It’s 300 miles away. But the salacious details… they...

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