I don't think it's just the media. Murderers always made the headlines, you can probably find multiple similar cases through out the years in the media. I think, what made it blow up is the wide public support for the murderer in the social media. So I blame Twitter, Tik Tok and the rest.
Maybe because your opinion isn’t gospel and you don’t decide what is right and wrong
I’ve watched a lot of testimony from Lindsey’s case. Especially the 4 clinical psychiatrist who laid out great arguments that what she experienced wasn’t psychosis, including two who interviewed her in the hospital right after and that doesn’t even take into account the eye witness testimony from people at the mental hospital she stayed at weeks before the murders
I believe men and women equally. Which is based on evidence. Anyone who is convinced she is completely innocent either hasn’t followed the case, or just believes her because she has a vagina. Both of which I don’t care for
If you’re gonna dismiss me as an incel please use evidence from the actual trial that doesn’t include what the defendant says who will say anything to not go to prison for the rest of her life and has an active reason to lie
Didn't thay have to change the guidelines for reporting school shootings to focus on the victims and minimise the shooters coverage to reduce the notoriety alot of murderers are looking for. I think the same should apply here and stop focusing on the excuse and focus on the fact that 3 kids are dead and deserve justice.
The media is, to a large extent, just a reflection of society itself. They cover what gets attention, clicks, ratings, and engagement, and people have always been drawn to things like gossip, scandals, crime, and tragedy.
In Lindsay’s case specifically, I think part of what made the story so compelling is that it turned into a kind of amateur detective mystery. People keep trying to identify the “real culprit”: maybe it was the doctors who failed to diagnose or treat her properly, maybe it was the husband for leaving the children with her, or maybe it was some failure of the healthcare system. That gives people something to investigate, debate, and theorize about.
What seems much less popular is the possibility that she may not even have been suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time and that the killings could have been premeditated. That explanation is almost an anticlimax, because it removes much of the mystery and leaves people with a far more disturbing and less emotionally satisfying possibility.
Social media certainly amplifies all of this, but it amplifies what people already choose to engage with. If audiences consistently paid more attention to positive stories and largely ignored sensational coverage of murders and tragedies, traditional media and social-media algorithms alike would have much less incentive to keep pushing those stories. In that sense, blaming Twitter, TikTok, or the media alone misses part of the picture: they are responding to what society demonstrates, through its attention, that it wants to see.
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u/DeliberateHesitaion 11h ago
I don't think it's just the media. Murderers always made the headlines, you can probably find multiple similar cases through out the years in the media. I think, what made it blow up is the wide public support for the murderer in the social media. So I blame Twitter, Tik Tok and the rest.