Romenesko

Boston Globe
But the John Mark Karr story is easy to cover, and TV news execs have obviously decided they can attract and hold viewers by making the lurid case a news staple, says Scot Lehigh. "It's hard to avoid the conclusion that their bottom-line judgment amounts to this: Many of our viewers can't separate the important from the trivial -- and they will change the channel if we do that for them."