When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.