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No. 74711
On the subject of media exposure, I'd like to point out that media is just the end of the line that provides information to the general public. It's not just that we now have access to information about what's going on everywhere around the world, it's also that the people everywhere have a better understanding now of what's going on in their own environment than they had, say, a century ago. Scientific and technological advancement and whatnot.
If, a century ago, we'd had the same level of news access, we wouldn't have necessarily had as many stories of people going apeshit, simply because they had a better chance of getting away with it back then.
Nowadays, even if the Brit virgin in OPs post slashed the shit out of those chicks and fled the scene without anybody knowing who he was, the authorities would have probably tracked him down eventually and you'd still have your "a-british-virgin-was-found-guilty-of-attempted-murder-after-stabbing-three-women" news headline. Forensic sciences have advanced considerably in the past century. A century ago, if there were no witnesses, it could very well have just been attributed to the work of "a creature", and if it happened a few times then maybe some Jack The Ripper type character, the work of multiple unknown killers would be getting attributed to a single entity, and so forth.
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