According to Claire Sisco King, associate professor of communication studies at Vanderbilt University, “What used to be a push-pull environment for news changed with the intensity behind the new twenty-four seven channels and the internet, and the need to churn out more content,” she explained. “It had always been commonplace to be cruel to women in the media, but this exponentially increased in the nineties. For Carolyn, there was also the unspoken rule where John and his family had been through so much tragedy, that treating them (too) poorly was unacceptable. So you need heroes and
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