r/AskAnAustralian • u/Puzzled-Address-4818 • 1d ago
why is Erin Patterson is constantly getting air time on the news?
so she used mushrooms to poison and commit murder, why is it that the news on telly is still reporting this over and over for months now??
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u/Luser5789 1d ago
A multiple murder event is a rare occurrence in Australia and she was also sentenced today.
It should wrap up and not be heard about again in a few days until the inevitable appeal
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u/missingvienna 1d ago
The court case has attracted worldwide attention. I think a lot of people have followed it and feel invested.
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u/sliipinglat3ly 1d ago
people complain about hearing about stuff in the us, or “irrelevant” news online, and then complain when real news is being broadcast ????
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u/Equivalent-Bonus-885 1d ago
Go to any bookshop. Look how much room is devoted to crime fiction/true crime. Same with tv/movies. People find crime, esp. murder fascinating.
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u/cruiserman_80 1d ago
You don't think that her being sentenced today wasn't relevant or newsworthy?
That you have made a post about it proves that it is and still has people's attention.
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u/Top_Street_2145 1d ago
Murder by mushrooms..... its a great news story and a female perpetrator is rare.
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u/Tom-Montgomery 1d ago
Because people keep talking about it, so they air it, even this post brings it up again
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u/ImeldasManolos 1d ago
Nothing significant happens in Australia. The rest of the world is concentrated between 15 and 30 hours away par avion, so when something actually happens the media makes it last
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u/mystic_cheese 1d ago
Because she is a psycho hose beast that killed family via a retro 80s dish. That shit don't happen every day.
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u/Jisp_36 1d ago
Because Erin Patterson is the first mass murderer in his country since Port Arthur. Thank God it's very rare in this country.
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u/namsupo 1d ago
Since Port Arthur there has been:
28/6/1997 Tasmania 4 dead
23/6/2000 Queensland 15 dead
7/2/2009 Victoria 10 dead
18/7/2009 NSW 5 dead
18/11/2011 NSW 11 dead
9/9/2014 NSW 4 dead
19/12/2014 QLD 8 dead
20/1/2017 VIC 6 dead
11/5/2018 WA 6 dead
9/9/2018 WA 5 dead
4/6/2019 NT 4 dead
19/2/2020 QLD 4 dead
13/4/2024 NSW 6 dead
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u/Mundane_Wall2162 1d ago
Because it's liberating for women and men to see a woman have to take full responsibility for committing violent crime. The public doesn't see that very often. Look at every facial expression she makes and she's desperate to look like the victim. It's quite common to see in the news the domestic violence perpetrators saying hey I'm the real victim in all this and nobody believing them. Satisfying to see any phony victim getting their comeuppance.
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u/LemonElectrical3359 1d ago
Multiple murder event is unusual, the murder method is very unusual and the fact that the killer is a woman is both unusual and salacious. So it ticks all the boxes for a very “click bait-y” news story, despite it actually being about the tragic, very cruel, deaths of 3 innocent people.