Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.
It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.