History of New pt. 2

I find the stipulations that make a crime story successful hilarious, and yet completely relevant, because even today they still prove true.  The book mentioned the O.J. Simpson case as an example, which is largely accepted as one of the longest running and most followed stories in history.  The rules seem ridiculous on the surface, because they reinforce a time that most people would like to think we have moved on from.  Even in the first rule having a women or child in the story already makes it more successful, because it's playing to traditional gender stereotypes that are associated with another time.  A more current example of this rule would be the hacker that realized nude photos of female celebrities, and how much media coverage it got.  Not that I did much research into whether male celebrity photos were leaked, but there was little to no coverage on their invasion of privacy if there was.  Have a female or child as the victim makes the story more sensation.  I am relieved that we have moved on from journalists giving a morality lesson while they are reporting.  At least that, for the most part is behind us, as long as you look at credible sources, which I can now say with sincerity.  Clearly this type of news even today is geared toward readers with not as much education, and looks at achieving it's financial means through circulation and a high volume of readers.  While even back then the actual written by the king articles (Time magazine for the modern age) appeal to people of a higher education class with more financial means who can pay a hefty subscription fee and don't need the content filtered for them in order for them to understand it.