It was a Serious Kitchen Knife

News reports of major crime can be linked to popular fiction genres. This linkage extends to the role of the crime witness and to the reporter as witness of crime and its aftermaths. It is argued that audience identification with witnesses and witnessing creates a 'breathing space' for reconsideration and reassessment of the crime. To illustrate how this might work in the reporting of horror and atrocity crimes, some newspaper 'horror' stories, and their relationship with horror fiction conventions, are discussed along with the television 'eyewitness' reporting of international atrocity stories

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