Crime Has Become Entertainment

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Crime Has Become Entertainment

We live in a strange society where we make documentaries of serial killers, movie idols out of organized crime members, authors out of political crooks, and role models out of criminals who beat the system. ... I don't know when crime went from being news to entertainment, but somehow it's made the transition.

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