Originally Posted by ARTelevision

The entire story and, even more, the images in question are published because they are great entertainment, particularly for the demographic groups that enjoy this type of thing enough to pay for it to be included in so much popular entertainment media content. Bloodlust and an infatuation with evil are some of the more predictable aspects of human psychology.

As for attempts to discuss contemporary media outlets as ever being motivated by a sense of personal, social, or cultural responsibility, they do appear as quite naive or simply motivated by urges of denial.

If there are some aspects of this situation novel enough to merit additional words, I would contribute to the discussion by saying it would be helpful if terms such as “rights, freedoms, free expression, and freedom of the press” were more generally regarded as operative only in contexts of personal, social, and cultural responsibility.