Keith Hayward: Opening the Lens: Cultural Criminology and the Image reading

In Keith Hayward's reading I agree with everything he mentioned. I feel that all types of media ranging from newspaper articles to reality TV shows all try to portray something that really isn't happening around the world or 100% true.  They tend to do this because they know our culture loves drama and so they try to incorporate that in any possible way they can.  I feel the most misrepresentations come from TV shows like CSI, and SVU. I notice they like to describe their victim and attacker as Caucasian which we obviously know isn't true due to the statistics. Also, television series like to portray their attacker or killer as someone they didn't know but typically the victims know their assailant. What we see on TV and read, we automatically think it's true and don't ever question what is really happening. Like Keith mentioned, " Instead of  simply studying 'images' we need a new methodological orientation towards the visual that is capable of encompassing meaning, affect, situation, symbolic power, and efficiency in the same frame.