Jodi herself was more concerned with looking good for the camera and scheduling interviews than the trial. During Jodi’s eighteen days worth of testimony there was a live media feed broadcasting her every word. This just seems to be more of a publicity stunt than anything. If you really want to get to the bottom of what happened, there needed to be more measures taken to keep her out of the spotlight but yet she was thrust into it at every turn. The courts system was playing on the celebrity status, if you will, that the trial had attained. Even the sheriff of the jail where Jodi was being held enjoyed making celebrities out of his inmates or people that he had arrested. He was more than willing to give tours or interviews regarding the case.
In the end, the trial did end and a sentence was handed down, but at the same time the media outlets made a lot of money off a very unfortunate chain of events that was sensationalized just to raise their television ratings for a small window of time.
In the end, the trial did end and a sentence was handed down, but at the same time the media outlets made a lot of money off a very unfortunate chain of events that was sensationalized just to raise their television ratings for a small window of time
I also believe that if they wanted to get to the bottom of the case right away, they should have kept her out of the spotlight, but if they would have done that there would not have been as much excitement and drama for media cover for the public. Jodi was looked on more as a celebrity than the cold blooded killer she really is. Yes, the whole case was a boost for media and broadcasters, but I also believe the biggest reason the media was able to boost it up was because the public likes to be entertained by others and feeds into drama. If the public didn't feed into drama like it does it could not have been a boost for media! Great opinions, enjoyed reading your post!
ReplyDeleteThat is why the Jodi Arias Trial was so popular to most because it was a very long entertaining trail. Trails are suppose to be boring and serious. This one you would of expected to be more serious because a serious situation happened. Who would of thought the words “jealousy,” “religion,” “murder,” and “sex” would end up in one trail room. It is crazy how someone can be so worried about what they are going to look like on TV than getting the death penalty. She was even smiling in her mug shot. The attention she was getting and the jail she was staying at was ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, it was a circus! People were so intrigued with the scandal that they could care less about the actual trial. When you have all these aspects together: sex, scandal, life and death, religion, violence, etc, its like a reality crime show and people will follow it and crave more of it. Similar to how we cant wait for next weeks episode of our favorite reality shows. The fact that jail employees allowed people to interview inmates for media spectacle is absurd, but no one did anything other than encourage it.
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